The desire for eternal life on a deathbed (Dying, 4)

A female friend of mine of the age of 89 years passed away last week. She was almost impatient. She was so anxious to move on with her life in the spiritual world. That is something different from other people I've seen passing away, who were afraid of death, or who didn’t believe anything or who were so attached to their children that they did not want to die. She is the second person in my life who had so strongly this attitude. Would You like to comment on this?

Your female friend is an exception. She was convinced of the spiritual life. She stood open in life, and was without fear for punishment or penance and lived without any notion of sin. She was capable of having this desire, without reserve and without doubt, straight from her heart and her mind
And do know that this desire was appropriate. This is how the spiritual matters for almost all people are arranged after the death of the physical body.

A wonderful world full of love and beauty is in store for mankind and the earthly man does not have to be afraid for penance and punishment. You are talked into this by straying and weak pastors with frightening images of God. They are wrong. Your female friend was right.
The best moments on earth are paling before the spiritual world that is awaiting you.
Hope on it, trust on it and look forward to it, provided this is not detrimental to your live on earth. Let this hope lighten and enrich your life on earth.
Your female friend is blessed.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 343

Being born is as difficult as dying (Dying, 3)

My God, I'm always a bit allergic to insufficient fresh air, I have to choke quite quickly and You know my fear to suffocate. Now it seems to me that a baby -at some point becoming so big that he has to get out- is really having cramped and difficult times. You have already told something about the end of life, dying. But the beginning of life, the whole process of being born, is actually quite dramatically. So my question to you is: is the birth process not actually as difficult as the process of dying?

Being born is generally speaking as difficult as dying.

Like often in life beginning isn’t that easy at all.
Beginning with change.
Beginning with overcoming an addiction.
Beginning with being yourself as stout,  as gay, as an independent thinker.
Beginning with fighting against the regular social ideas as emancipated woman, as an atheist in a strict religious society, as a critic in a dictatorial country.
Beginning can be very difficult.

But beginning with life is really just as painful,  as confrontational, just as confusing, just as making insecure as dying is.

Take the foetus, safely vegetating in the womb.
There are, but we are assuming the ideal situation, no tensions. The mother's consciousness is 100% focused on the little one. In fact the last few weeks she has actually become the abdomen, the uterus with maximum love and attention and care for the little one.

But the little one has become big, the foetus has to go on. Signals are arising in the maternal body this huge special organ has to be divested. That this is not meant to continue, that this “innocent parasite” has requested enough from the body. Let's not get romantic about this. The body wants, no needs to repel this excessive proliferation in the body, it has to go away.

And this is for the foetus a very painful physical and emotional experience, it has to bugger off,  while it before was loved and cherished and cared for so much. A process of rejection has begun, it has to be mentioned in this manner. This is for the foetus drama number one.

Drama number two is to be squeezed through the channel of birth. People with claustrophobia will not be happy here. The foetus must squeezed out of the womb through  the canal of birth, which is stretched in a for the mother dramatically painful way. This pain, this anguish, this terrifying experience of the mother is the foetus experiencing in all its vulnerability and former security as a terrorist attack, so horrible, so oppressive, so painful, so strangling: these experiences -if it is lucky to be squeezed through the canal of birth for just a few hours- are intense for a small and vulnerable and helpless little being.

Drama number three is to have been born. First, the enormous anguish of the cutting of the umbilical cord and the need for breathing with not working lungs still full of amniotic fluid, but at the same time having lost the protective atmosphere and intimacy of the mother's body. The baby will breathe for sure,  the baby will get used to the autonomous independent life, certainly, but only when it feels something from the familiar smell and atmosphere of the parental body, the baby will fall asleep exhausted.

Overall, my son, it is true, being born is often as difficult as dying.

All babies and their mothers are blessed during childbirth.
 
My blessings to you all

Nr. 342

Dying is almost always horrible (Dying, 2)

My God, I am shocked really, again and again, how often people do have a hard deathbed. I was thinking really romantically about it. One grows old wisely, and passes  after a brief illness over to a better life. And what I see around me, people struggling with old age, being long-term sick and with pain and the loss of important functions often die suffocating.
I'm absolutely not afraid of death, but am I now very wary about dying. Would You like to comment on this issue?

It's true, death is horrific. The disease which afflicts the body and mind and is combined with a decline to dependence. The mind is affected by despair and pain. The sadness of leaving behind loved ones. A young mother who dies. An asthma patient dying suffocating. Someone with cancer in the bones, falling apart literally, breaking bones all the time and dying with horrible pains.
Even though the medical profession in some countries may still soften the pain and may accelerate death.

Life is a challenge, but dying is an ordeal.
God can not alter anything here. It is the downside of an earthly life in the making, in evolution.
It is the price paid by life to be allowed to exist.
It's the gruesome end of a life full of successes.
It's the flip side of the coin of physical life in all its beauty and success.
The prodigious growth of a foetus in the womb into an autonomous new earthly life.
The mysterious digestion creating with nutrition via nerves and blood vessels pliable muscles, clear-thinking brains and healing wounds.

My son, I could go on and on with mentioning all the marvels of the earthly body, that your question is becoming more insignificant, less and less important. Your question will be so relative that at any given moment you will call out against me

"Please stop it, I understand it, it is clear, Your message. I see that we people want to get of lightly. That we just only want the fun. We are getting a life of divine gifts, miraculous healings and impressive examples of ingenuity. The human body is the most magnificent of all instruments on Earth, see how pitifully still a robot operates! You've made your point. In the whole range of successes and wonders of human life it is not fair of me to extract just a tough case, increase it enormously and then mourning a lot about it. I rest my case. "

Meanwhile, the spiritual world is doing everything to support a human being during his deathbed with all the strength, endurance, love and peace that are just to forgive. And it is always temporary, afterwards the spiritual healing and a miraculous path in the spiritual world are waiting ahead.
Thank you for your sincere question.
All dying people on earth are very much blessed.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 341

During the process of dying God can become very close (Dying, 1)

I read the following text of a journalist who visited a hospice, "In the last The New Yorker is a long story about a nurse who accompanies men dying at home. I read that there are nurses who believe that working with dying men brings you the most close to God's presence on earth. You do not have to be religious to feel that sacredness lingering around bodies coming to a halt and - after completion - see the salvation on their faces. " *

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We should not think romantically about dying. The evolution of man is not yet so advanced that people consciously leave their body without any suffering at the end of their live. This is meant to be.
There is a lot of horrible suffering what the dying and their beloved ones really learn to know. But ... ..this being said I'd love to go into the dying process and the presence of God.

Ideally, the dying has let go of his attachment with the matter, has retired from his loved ones. And is no longer concerned with the great passion of the ego, namely the outside world and what is in it for himself.

The dying has become silent, has lost hope, has lost his interest in performance and what others think of him. The dying has no more pretension and has lost his pride -the most important ingredient for the presence of God. Dying is a debunking process of vulnerability, you let strangers wash the buttocks and you are not able to do anything, you achieve nothing anymore, there is nothing to be proud of, the only thing left is the inner self.
Humility, meekness, modesty and vulnerability have emerged.
And then God is really happy to come.
Then God gets a chance.

Then the soul and its grandeur assert influence on the earthly personality.
Then sacredness and holiness show themselves.
Then salvation becomes manifest.
Then God will take Its place.
Then bystanders become quiet and humble.
Then the odor of sanctity comes into play.
Then comes the dying in the sphere of God.
All dying persons on earth are blessed.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 340

 

*Wim Boevink, Trouw, July 9, 2016

Even a mediocre life can become wondrous (Pope Francis)

 

 

Pope Francis‏@Pontifex

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

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Pope Francis is right.
Every moment a mediocre life can be uplifted to great heights by one’s own will , one’s own insight and new hope. There is a lot of truth and beauty on earth. And when man is watching this all,  new hope, new insights and a new respect for life , for mankind, for Mother earth will arise.
And all this beauty and trueness are stemming from God, from God alone. God is handing it all, even to those people who do not believe in God. As much.

Everything is from God. How else could it be ? Have a combination of six atoms, the emergence of a bacterium, the evolution of life really begun by itself? Yes By Itself, by God Itself.

Pope Francis is appealing to young people . And I say: dear people , all of you , not only young people , you all, you may uplift your life above the mediocrity with new hope and new insights.

Oh glorious life , oh wondrous power of energy , oh mankind, cherish your eternity , oh mediocre life, turn your gaze upwards. Be a God in your thoughts. And God will express Itself in your deeds. For all of you , even just before you are dying, this opportunity will arise.
And if it does not happen: all the mediocre lives are lovingly cherished by God and will received in love by the spiritual world. Because every road is a way to God , even a detour. And every mediocre life will be an extraordinary life once, sooner or later, before or after the physical death.

It can not be otherwise.

My blessings to you all