We’ve reached the last Sunday in January with our theme of “Life is a Journey”. I trust your journey through this past month and the ones ahead have been and will be fruitful, filled with opportunities for growth and giving of your essential Self. When we boarded this train called a “human experience” many of us were perhaps ill prepared for the journey with life’s various twists and turns. Hopefully we’ve learned a thing or two along the way and in fact are still open to newness.
One of the basic principles that will give us solace as we journey through this lifetime is that when the time comes for us to lay down this human form, our Life does not come to a screeching halt. No, for there is one Life in which we all partake and It is without beginning or end. “The Next Stop” for each of us is an unknown. Oh, we may have notions and ideas as to what it will be, but until our Spirit actually disembarks, these notions and ideas are speculation.
When I was 10 years old in the 5th Grade, one of my classmates was hit by a car and killed. It was the first time I had ever experienced a death of someone my own age. For many of my friends it was horrifying. I remember walking to school with Eva Hernandez and she going on and on, asking me if I wasn’t afraid to die. Perhaps because I had been close to death at 5 when I contracted polio, without hesitation I gave her the following reply. “No, I’m not afraid to die because I know that before I was here, God took care of me and I know when I die He will take care of me again.” It’s taken me a long time to realize that God is always “taking care of me” right here and now – all the time. We truly don’t know what our “next stop” in Life will be or what it will look like, but I can assure you, if you open your heart and awareness to the One Power and Presence we call God, you will have peace.
Say with me: “Each day of my life, I commune and feel the Presence of the Divine within and around me. I know wherever I am, God is, and all is well. And it is so.”
— Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living
