Eternal Life by Rev. Lane Williams
We are beginning a New Year and ending the first decade of a new millennium. I affirm that 2010 promises a new energy, a new consciousness and awareness of who we are, where we are going, and what is ours to do. All this is set in the realm of time – that human construct that so rules our everyday existence. Our lives are so often lived dominated by time, schedules and appointments to keep, to do lists, timelines, and alarm clocks. As we get on in years we mark each birthday with mixed emotion as we see the wrinkles and stray gray hairs emerging on the youthful, free and healthy, joy-filled and vibrant being that we truly are. How could this be? I don’t feel older; I feel wiser and calmer maybe on my good days – not OLD!
In the realm of the Divine, the Allness, the Oneness of all life, there is no time. For time needs the idea of separateness to exist. Time is linked to the concept of space between objects. There has to be a beginning of something and the end of another – separateness. When this is what we operate in, there is time. It takes time to move from one thing to another. I hold the image of a rainbow in my mind and it helps me understand this idea. If I imagine a rainbow seen from the Earth there is an array of color – bands of yellow, orange, red, violet, and blue. This is separateness – yes? But when I imagine myself IN the rainbow there is only white light – there is only the allness of all color possible. There is no separation. Being in the rainbow is like being in the Divine Realm of all things possible. It is from this realm that all in the physical realm is created. From the field of all things possible come all that we see around us – and separateness and time. We do this from the perspective of Earth – that time-space continuum.
So knowing all this, how can we, the metaphysical truth students that we are, hold the concept of aging and death? Yes, it is true that we humans age, wrinkle up, turn gray, and even sometimes feeble and addle-brained. We all then pass on from this physical plane. The challenge is to at the same time – note the humor in that – hold that we are timeless spirits whose lives are eternal, constant and unending. We are not separate and apart from any of life, we are immersed in the eternal life of Spirit, this white light of the rainbow image.
There is no death in the Allness of Divine Life. There is the transmutation of form, the transition from one form of energy to another. When we burn a log in the fireplace, where does it go? Does it disappear – is it gone? No, it is transformed into heat, light, charcoal, and ash. Just as the young mammal emerges from the warm cocoon of its mother’s womb, in effect dying to fetus-hood, it then is birthed into a new realm of life. It changes form from a parasite living off the host who is its mother- in cold and analytical terms – to a free-standing independent being. Just as the caterpillar transforms from creepy crawly thing to a winged one, upon death we shed this body form to fly with the angels. We haven’t changed who and what we are at the core. We are the continuing essence of Allness in new form.
So when we affirm these truths of our innate, constant connection to eternal life, we can manage that monkey mind chatter that worries over our aging and the approaching end of our physical life. As we affirm uplifting statements of truth we take ourselves to the experience of peace, calm and experience eternal life. All is well.
I am a spiritual being, a whole and perfect expression of God. I am; God is.
I am One with the One. I am an eternal expression of the All that Is.
And so it is. And so it is. Amen.
