dailydatewithgod

It is hard to imagine what life would be like if we knew there was no end.  What if we all lived forever?  Would we be different people?  Would we live our lives differently?  Would we interact with others differently?  As it stands now we all experience the same outcome.  We all die.  How does this shape our reality?  Do we spend our time and energy accepting this fact or do we focus on how we can outwit death?  It is funny that the very outcomes which are the same for everyone are the same one no one wants to talk about.  At least in Western culture, unless one is faced with their death or the death of another we all go around acting like it isn’t going to happen to us.  We don’t like to talk about it and if we do we are seen as dark and morbid.  We keep dead people in the basement of hospitals and find those who own and operate mortuaries a bit odd.  When a doctor has to broach the conversation with a patient, it is met with a certain level of trepedation.  Why do we fear this outcome?  Just recently I was experiencing the rolling effects of an earthquake and thought for a moment, what if my outcome was today?  It turns the perspective of the day on its head.  What if today I met the outcome of my life?  The irony in all of this is it is not the outcome we fear.  It is what it will mean.  It is about when we get to the outcome of our lives, what kind of life will we be able to say we lived?  If we delay the idea of the outcome in the first place, we do not have to stop and reflect on what kind of life it is. We do not have to ask ourselves the perhaps difficult question:  How have we lived from our heart on our way to the outcome of our lives?