I believe we are made of energy. There’s electricity that powers our brain and our heart. Science can measure it with instruments like an EKG and ECG. I also believe that energy can exist for a while after the physical body has died and that energy explains the idea of ghost and spirts in the paranormal world.
Today I was watching a TV show about the paranormal when something suddenly occurred to me. Most of the time, these paranormal investigators say they see people associated with a place or a building. For example, if they are in a house from the 1800’s, then they see someone who looks like they are from the 1800s. If they are in a Civil War cemetery, then they see someone who looks like they are from the Civil War. However, people have been around for thousands of years, there should be ghosts and spirits from years ago walking around all over the place, but no one ever sees the ghost from the middle-ages or the cave man ghost. At least, they hardly ever do.
At first, it made me think that all these paranormal investigations were more the power of suggestion than real spirits. Then, I started to think about what I have started to contemplate about life after death.
No one can know what really happens. If my conscious goes on or if it stops. If my spirit will travel to another plane of existence or not. What I have come to realize is with faith, it really doesn’t matter. I am not living my life so that I can be rewarded with Heaven at the end. Heaven doesn’t give meaning to my life. The way I live my life right now, the love I have for God and my brothers and sisters in Christ, and the ability to be here in the moment and be thankful for it right now is what makes my life meaningful. If there’s anything after death, then it is going to be like icing on the cake.
The only problem with this idea is that Jesus spoke about eternal life. I believe He did and I believe that is one of God’s promises. I just don’t think eternal life is what everyone thinks it is. Our bodies aren’t meant to be eternal. They start to decay as soon as we are born. No matter what advances there are in science, everyone at one point or another will eventually die.
Yet the love we create in this world seems to live on. I know it does. I feel the love that my father gave me in my heart every day. He died almost eight years ago and yet, he is going to be in my heart until the day I die. The love that is in my heart is also going to live on in the lives of the other people that I touch. That love like a virus is going to be passed down from one person to another through generations and it isn’t going to die. God’s love truly is eternal. It lives in me and through me.
I think and I may be wrong, but the reason why we don’t see spirits and ghosts from the distant past is because their energy and love has traveled so long over the years it isn’t as strong in just one place. It has traveled spread to many different people and many different places and when the energy isn’t concentrated anymore, then it is difficult to detect especially by a living being. However, what is miraculous is realizing that I carry God’s love in my heart, and I carry the love of all my ancestors and the people who have touched their lives in my heart going back centuries. People say that we live in a such a horrible time when society has gotten to be so bad, but I think that I am blessed to have so much history that I carry that much in my heart. I must be capable of so much with all that I have inside of me.
I think it is ironic that these paranormal investigators look to see the spirits and ghosts of the past and catch a glimpse of them on audio or video so that they can decipher a message from beyond, when they only need look inside of themselves to know what those who have passed on are trying to tell all of us.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
