From the beginning of the time of your ascendancy, when you came unmoored from time and drifted apart from your ancestors, you have known that your world will end. But the end of that world is not the end of everything.
Your way of living is not the sum of you. Your understanding of your world is but a small portion of all that is. Only when you have understood that the world you have made is not the only world, that your way of living is not the only way—only then will you be able to relinquish your hold on it and reach the world that may be.
People speak of the world to come as if that world lay at a great distance from this one, as if stood above them in the heavens or in some distant faraway realm. But the world to come surrounds you. It is as close as your breath and your heartbeat. It is within you like your bones, around you like air and water. It is that world that you have come from and that world to which you return.
There are those who do not believe there is any world worth having but the one that they have made, and they will do anything to protect that world. They will die rather than surrender it. There is nothing that you can do to change the mind or move the heart of the person who does not believe there is an older world to return to—or a further world to hope for. Those who live within the short and narrow compass of a single life will have nowhere to flee when death comes for them…because they do not want to flee.
I see all hearts and discern all hearts. I dwell within each chamber and whisper in the blood that pumps through them. I speak to anyone who will listen and forgive all those who remember Me and ask for My care. But it is not up to you to do My work.
You may share your heart with another, and if that person can listen, I will be there within them to plead My case for the length of their soul. I can soften hard hearts and enter the locked room of every mind. I can go where you cannot and accomplish impossible things. So never give up on anyone. But know that yours is not the final word.
[Art: Catskill artist Alison Berry]