It seems there is a lot of need for deeper understanding of life and death at this time in my personal
experience. Several of my friends have recently had loved ones who have made their transitions from
this physical plane. Often when a person passes, the question of "why" becomes a prominent theme in the grieving process.
I have never found the question of "why" to be productive. Life is not laid out after some "appropriate"
pattern as people would like to think. It is an experience – ever-changing, volatile, dynamic. We all
have different challenges and experiences, depending on what we signed up for before we came here.
Being in this physical experience calls all of us back to the Oneness, the Allness of God. We are all moving in that direction, whether we know it or not. And for all of us
, the ultimate return to God is death. I don't know of any other way to do get out of this body and back in the Wholeness that created us except through death's door.
Often it is easier to accept the sting of death if our loved one has lived a long, full life. It seems harder
for us if the loved one was still young, with so much life not yet lived. Death is a returning to God, a
returning to Creator. God does not "take" our loved one. The loved one's spirit seeks to return to the
perfect place of Wholeness, and some souls are unable to find their way to live in this body experience. The only way to return to Wholeness, the Oneness, the Allness is by releasing the body.
When a loved one passes, we mourn. That is natural and appropriate for there is an absence in our
lives. Yet in that mourning, let there be celebration that our loved one is free of whatever confined him or her. Those who die are not victims.
They live on - eternal, radiant, complete, and perfect. In the moment that a person releases the body, they remember who they really are – a divine and holy, perfect, Child of God!
For those who have left the planet, may their passing open many hearts to love deeper, hug longer, be kinder, and to remember that this
physical experience is not the beginning or the end. It is a page in the long book of our eternal lives.
Namaste`
Rev. Robin
