Post on Death - By Lyra

When we fret about death and get anxious thinking about it it's because on a deep level we recognize or feel that we're "not done yet." And that's usually because we haven't truly lived to our full capacity and done all that we could do in our time so far. We have unfinished business. Things we feel we still needed to do, loose ends that should have been tied up, rifts that should have been mended and resolved, things that should have been said, trips that should have been taken and sites that should have been seen. Accomplishments - possibly incarnational goals - that we envisioned for ourselves when we were younger that we still have yet to do.

It's a good idea if we haven't started doing so already to think in this manner. If I were to die in a year's time, what would I like to have done before I go? Is there a rift out there I would have wanted to mend before going? A trip I would have wanted to take? Some sort of do-good act I would have liked to have done? Problems arise when we mistakenly fall for the modern Western societal programming that we're all going to live to make it to be 105 years old, in a nursing home somewhere. No. We won't all live to be that old. Some of us are going to die within the next year, actually. And it's okay. That's the way it goes. Just make sure you don't have loose ends lingering before you go.

Just food for thought....