This Shadow of Life
Sometimes I fancy that this life
Is but a dream, an interlude,
For our eternal soul.
An experience perhaps
To enrich our inner selves,
To teach us certain values,
Agape, patience and charity
Before we re-awaken
In our heavenly home.
Image: Jsuswalks_photobucket.com
©DGA 27.05.2011 23:19
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28/05/2011 at 12:24 am
A lovely concept.
Started a train of thought. Our original home, or our home-to-be? One journey, or a part of many?
I’ve actually touched on these subjects in my latest fantsy.
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28/05/2011 at 12:27 am
Thanks Col! I was editing the last bit while, I think, you were making your comment… 🙂
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28/05/2011 at 12:44 am
I tend to agree with your train of thought, Adee.
We are here to experience, learn, grow, and . . . LOVE! Some lessons are easier than others.
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28/05/2011 at 6:04 am
Thanks, Nancy. It is hard figure out the role of evil though, except as a challenge to good…
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28/05/2011 at 4:58 am
An interlude. Now that is possible. I think most of us have felt that there is some kind of pre birth attachment or prior essence before we became a couple of cells and grew. And giving up the ghost to that beyond in death. I still have not figured out to a satisfactory degree the purpose of evil people in this interlude. They are but contaminating filth. The minister that baptized my granddaughter said that from the beginning of time she(and all people) was an idea in the mind of God and became flesh and this rite is a celebration of the child’s entry. Perhaps for her interlude as you suggest. She was born Christmas Day, eight years ago.
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28/05/2011 at 6:15 am
I feel strongly that we existed with God before our birth into this life and that we will return again. There is much, however, that is beyond our comprehension…
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28/05/2011 at 8:08 am
Yes, there is much that is beyond our comprehension but all will be revealed when He thinks we are ready.
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28/05/2011 at 8:17 am
You’re right Barb, and I’m sure there will be lots of surprises too.
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28/05/2011 at 8:22 am
You make a fine point, adee.
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28/05/2011 at 9:19 am
Thank you, Cin. 🙂
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28/05/2011 at 9:50 am
you are sometimes very ‘other worldly’, i wonder what you can see
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28/05/2011 at 10:33 am
Sidey, I constantly surprise myself by what I have written when it is finished. But then I find I like what I’ve written and it makes sense to me.
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28/05/2011 at 6:32 pm
wont that be the day when we wake up in heaven…
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28/05/2011 at 7:35 pm
Oh yes, Brian. Heaven indeed…
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28/05/2011 at 7:53 pm
“Sometimes I fancy” you’re right, Adee… 🙂
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29/05/2011 at 6:08 am
I do hope so, Ruth. It would be wonderful.
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28/05/2011 at 10:27 pm
It certainly refines and hones us, Adee ….lovely thought.
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29/05/2011 at 6:08 am
Very complicated though re evil…
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29/05/2011 at 3:08 am
You wrote that? Awesome!!
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29/05/2011 at 6:10 am
Thank you, Otin. I can’t really take the credit though, it just came out…
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29/05/2011 at 8:52 am
“To teach us certain values” – it would make some sense that what we go through on this earth is not all for nought (I’m yet to be convinced)- lovely poem, Adee
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29/05/2011 at 9:11 am
Thank you, Bb. I’m sure it’s not for nothing…
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30/05/2011 at 3:15 am
Ecellent poem.
Packs a lot of power in those words
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30/05/2011 at 6:14 am
Thanks for such a nice compliment, AWS. 😀
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31/05/2011 at 3:50 am
I think that too. It’s the only way I can make sense of all the horrible things that happen in life – it just has to be a learning process, you know? Very profound concept. Beautifully written.
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31/05/2011 at 8:17 am
Thanks, Selma. It is the only explanation I could come up with that makes sense.
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03/06/2011 at 8:03 am
Let’s hope so 🙂
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09/06/2011 at 8:46 am
🙂
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08/06/2011 at 2:23 pm
Hi Adee…how I wish I was walking in those woods right now…all alone.
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09/06/2011 at 8:47 am
Peace, Gran… how lovely… 🙂
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