Mortality

I'm being reminded a lot this week about death and mortality, and acceptance and the necessity for closure, probably because we are coming up to the Spring Equinox and these Equinoxes and Solstices in a year tend to coincide with increases in 'passing over'. I'm being shown a train station with trains arriving and leaving and the timetables so I suspect that there are times when the station is busier than others. To use the train analogy again, holiday times must be a busier time at a train station and I think 'they' are saying that it is the same with Equinoxes but even more so with Solstices.

So most people do not know, or remember, when they are going to die, which I personally feel quite grateful for, because otherwise you would spend your whole life focusing on it, counting the hours, so to speak. Maybe what we should do is never assume that the next day is guaranteed and therefore see the beauty in all things around us and in our lives, as if it was the last time we will see or experience those things? This very nicely leads me to 'gratitude', illnesses tend to lead us to be more grateful for the things we can return to when we are better. I know from personal experience the frustration I felt when ill with Covid at the things I could not do, and the joy I found in being able to get back to those things when I was better. For me looking at the garden become unmanageable broke my heart, and so, when I was able to, I took great joy at being able to get back out there which may not have been the case if I had not been ill. So illnesses that we can recover from serve as a 'slowing down' of our pace, or a complete cessation in my case with Covid, but also as a basis for gratitude when we can 'get back to them'. But in the case of chronic illnesses that will affect the rest of our lives this is perhaps because we are trying to do things that we should no longer do? Or be places that are 'detrimental to our health'. Either or any way, chronic illnesses often cause us to 'refocus our lives', 'see things differently', 'approach things in a different way' and change 'habits of a life time'.

In the case of terminal diseases this is often a time of preparation for the 'next chapter of our life'; a slowing down, a chance to say our goodbyes and often focus our minds on the things that we haven't done that we wanted to do that we are still able to. For those around us it serves as a reminder to look at our own 'bucket lists', have more gratitude for the time we have left on this planet, in this lifetime with its particular limitations and restrictions and love the people that we are here with.

And finally, for those that die suddenly personally I think that is more about those that are 'left behind'. Sudden death often brings a very sharp reminder, to those left behind, of our own mortality, a 'wake up call' to get on and live before its too late. And for those dying, maybe it speaks of a person that is 'ready to go', prepared with 'all their ducks in order'??? That said, only God and his 'Angels' really know the truth and of course us before we came here. I often wonder why we don't remember the plans we made and lessons we were to learn when we come here this time around, but in a very nice full circle kind of a way, maybe if we did we wouldn't behave naturally and instinctively when things happen if we knew that they were going to happen???

Hope you've enjoyed my thoughts this morning. Sending you all 'love, light and healing in the name of Jesus' Love Mandy xxx