When the mother of Olympic figure skater Joannie Rochette died this past Sunday, 2/21/10, she provided every one of us on this planet the opportunity to re-member a great truth; that death is not the end, but rather an ongoing beginning.
By now, hundreds of millions of people know the story. Many watched on television, transfixed, as only 2 days after her mothers' tragic heart attack, Joannie Rochette competed in the Olympics, finding the strength to realize a life dream while dealing with the loss of the woman who bore her, raised her and loved her.
It's quite the story today, and intriguing to observe, as people discuss exactly what it means to lose a loved one and buzz about the implications of how those left behind react. Should we fall into misery? Must our heart ache with the knowledge that those we loved are gone, never to be experienced again?
Of course, absolutely of course, it is perfectly natural for us to feel this pain. But, the Universe has provided us new revelations; new ways of looking at and understanding death. As the Conversations with God series reminds us, there is no loss whatsoever when death occurs. It is a joyful experience for the one who has passed as he or she moves on to a different level of life, shedding the constraint of the human body and existence.
Our limited human thinking has trouble with this concept. We fail to grasp the implication of quantum physics, time, space, and the spiritual dimension of the soul in relation to life and death of the human body. Instead, fear overcomes us as we face the prospect of living in this world without someone whose love meant so much to us. Indeed, it can be a scary prospect for those who believe this life experience to be nothing but a biological process, meaning little, going nowhere, and ending after a few, short years.
I choose for my truth to be the opposite. It is an understanding that when those I care about die, perhaps tragically and "before their time", the experience is exactly what it is supposed to be. I understand that our souls will know each other again, in some way, shape or form, and that this short-term loss is just that-nothing but a blip in the mind-blowing expanse of space and time. While living human life for years or decades minus a loved-one seems an anguishing eternity for many of us to contemplate, the truth is that in the non-existent timeline of the universe, it will seem no longer than a weekend vacation when 2 souls meet again beyond this dimension.
It is that reality, the true perspective, serving as the re-minder that Joannie Rochette and her mother chose to share with us all. Thank you.
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