Ever-Appearing Creation

photo credit: Aaron Springston

Someone asked me if I thought there was anyone on this planet who had attained the ideal of no suffering. One of the reasons she was thinking deeply about this topic was that a friend of hers had awakened in the morning to find that her partner has passed on during the night. How, we wonder, is it possible to not feel pain in such a situation? I believe the key is in knowing that they haven't gone anywhere. Passing on to where? Mary Baker Eddy tells us that the dead will be surprised to find they are not dead. It seems we, in our desire for things to continue as they are, have turned this scenario into a different sort of material life, with the addition of wings and such. Everything we imagine is from our personal standpoint, don't you think? Even within this material existence, some people are able to feel even closer to loved ones after they are gone, as they commune on a different, more pure, level of consciousness than they had previously known. Perhaps we hold onto these feelings of grief because we're afraid that love, too, will be lost in the letting go. I have a hunch that the Love which is left can be sweeter than we ever could have dreamed!

“Creation is ever appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 507: 28-29