Today is Easter. It is a day to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. It is a time of rebirth and life. Yet, I am in the middle of planning and getting ready for two funerals. Then, today the most in your face ironic thing happened. A deer was killed just outside our back fence. Over twenty vultures lined up on the back fence of our neighborhood to take their place in the feast of death. They were even roosting on the roof of my house. If huge vultures hanging around isn’t a sign of death, then I don’t know what is. I couldn’t help thinking that God was trying to smack me in the face with some lesson.
I’ve been writing a lot about transcending the dualities. One on the biggest ones is life and death. In our humble human understanding, either something is alive or it is dead. However, God is above all of that. And isn’t that what Jesus preached? Didn’t He promise that if I had faith in God, I would have eternal life? I have asked myself what does that really mean?
Well, when the dualities transcend they become as one. Life and death become one. It doesn’t matter if you are alive or dead, you just are. My husband put it really well. He said it is like two sides of the same coin. One side is life and the other side is death and you are the coin. You are both at the same time and you just are. God exists beyond our understanding, language and ideas don’t really matter, the only thing that really matters is God because He is everything. His love means everything and being in that everything is what we are meant for. And when life and death transcend, we will have eternal life with God. When we let go of everything and commune with God all the worries and tribulations of this world won’t matter. Only His love.
So today instead of being surrounded by all the life that spring brings at Easter time, I am surrounded by memories of loved ones who have recently passed, and I am haunted by a group of vultures, but I have my faith. I know that in a time to come, all this will come together and I will be just as I am with my God in eternity or whatever eternity means in a universe where all the dualities and meanings and ideas are transcend into one. May my loved ones find peace in being with God. May we all find that peace one day.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
