First Moments in Heaven: Adonis?
Soul, when you first get to Heaven, I think you’ll remember the strengths and joys and benefits of every stage of that finite human life.
The trust, dependence and infinite potential of infancy
The innocence, openness, giggly-delight of toddling
The social exploration and tireless legs of childhood
The start-and-stop emerging-of-form-and-direction in adolescence
The sense of invincible momentum and importance in young adulthood
The reaching, twining foundation-building perseverance of maturity
The freedom, rightness, solidity, influence and stature of middle age
The wise cragginess of later years
The ephemerality and burden-lifting, disengagement near the end.
But your old body died at a particular age, time, condition…will you be forever cemented at that moment? Oh Soul, you’ll remember all of those realities and the value your community placed on each one, but those will quickly fade into the New Reality.
You’ll sense that your fate includes neither age nor solitude. “Prime of Life” beauty, smoothness of skin and quickness of mind you rushed toward and attempted to cling to was just a pinpoint of the pleasure, satisfaction and adventure you have yet to know. Wrinkled wisdom and innocent delight interact effortlessly and energetically. Clear direction and evanescence, trust and responsibility, invincible ecstasy and impossibly-complex potential, influence and dependence…the glories of each age swirl and flow into each other in unending novelties. Michelangelo’s Greek godness of sleek youthfulness will be a mere fleeting form you’ll notice in mild interest as your eternities of interactions with others engulf your consciousness.
Age? Hmmmm.
The trust, dependence and infinite potential of infancy
The innocence, openness, giggly-delight of toddling
The social exploration and tireless legs of childhood
The start-and-stop emerging-of-form-and-direction in adolescence
The sense of invincible momentum and importance in young adulthood
The reaching, twining foundation-building perseverance of maturity
The freedom, rightness, solidity, influence and stature of middle age
The wise cragginess of later years
The ephemerality and burden-lifting, disengagement near the end.
But your old body died at a particular age, time, condition…will you be forever cemented at that moment? Oh Soul, you’ll remember all of those realities and the value your community placed on each one, but those will quickly fade into the New Reality.
You’ll sense that your fate includes neither age nor solitude. “Prime of Life” beauty, smoothness of skin and quickness of mind you rushed toward and attempted to cling to was just a pinpoint of the pleasure, satisfaction and adventure you have yet to know. Wrinkled wisdom and innocent delight interact effortlessly and energetically. Clear direction and evanescence, trust and responsibility, invincible ecstasy and impossibly-complex potential, influence and dependence…the glories of each age swirl and flow into each other in unending novelties. Michelangelo’s Greek godness of sleek youthfulness will be a mere fleeting form you’ll notice in mild interest as your eternities of interactions with others engulf your consciousness.
Age? Hmmmm.