I just want that assurance.
I was taught as an Adventist that heaven is for Adventists and hell is for damn near everybody else who heard the Adventist message and rejected it (thanks for telling anyone, right?).
I'm a believer now in that I think if hell were real the only merciful thing that could have been done is for Adam and Eve to be commanded NOT to populate ANYTHING.
Regardless, I find myself wondering about my own mortality and where I will go "when I go".
I do adore Lilith and I definitely adore Maiya, but I don't necessarily believe that I will be a part of their protected domain (although I bet I wouldn't complain if I was).
There's a Rumi quote I saved that would be ideal if it was true. I'll post that in a bit.
I don't know why my own mortality is bothering me as of late.
Maybe it's because I've lost loved ones and friends to this and that.
Maybe it's my old, tired ass approaching 50.
50! How can I be getting so close to 50 when everything from my younger days and even my 30's is like yesterday?
I'm sitting here thinking through these things as if I were 70 or 80, but for whatever reason it's got a hold on my thinking as of late.
I've read my share of NDE's from various websites and studies.
I've studied on my own through Swedenborg and the like.
Everything is similar, and yet everything conflicts offering little as far as empirical data that I crave.
It doesn't have to be scientific, just SIMILAR enough to satisfy my troubled thoughts.
I found this quote from Rumi:
Wouldn't that be nice? For this world to vanish at death like a dream?
When one "wakes up" to the true reality?
I would love for Rumi's quote to be true. What a wonder to see everything just fall away...
Maybe I've become bored being disabled and sitting here. I'm having difficulty doing things that create a meaningful life. I'm not sure that I even know how to create a meaningful life.
As my children are growing up it hurts to see them struggle. It's one thing to struggle one's self... it's quite another to see the struggling of one's tender children.
Perhaps I feel that if I find meaning in all this, I can give them meaning, too.
With that,
Blessings,
Rafe GB.