Lately there have been a number of deaths in my life: a former student for whom I was the executor of his estate; a former staff member and friend, for whom I did his Celebration of Life ceremony; and the partner of a former staff member. I was just a member of the congregation for that very beautiful ceremony.
I’ve also recently finished a book called “Zealot”, about Jesus the man, not Christ the spiritual figure. Now I’m almost done with a book about the history of Islam. All of these events have caused me to look at spiritual evolution, as all of the people who have recently died and both of these books are all about different kinds of evolvement.
I have great respect for all three people who died. Robert, the former student, never did clairvoyant training, but he had taken various classes for many years and used the meditation tools in his life. He was a very kind and gentle soul. He had changed his will to exclude his friends, and his friends were not aware of those changes. I don’t know why he excluded his friends, but he had obviously been very clear in his intentions and owned what he wanted. One of friends let me know how unhappy he was with me!
John, the former staff person, had gone through tremendous evolutions in his life, from a very unhappy, worried person, to one who became a very happy, contented person even though he knew he was dying. He was always creative, and was a fabulous artist and photographer. He had many friends and acquaintances who stopped by his open studio to talk and chat. He had let go of his anxiety and completely owned who he was and stayed very present to live fully the final five years of his life.
I did not know the partner of our former staff person very well, but the stories I heard at the memorial were fabulous. He impacted many people in a very positive way, contributed to the well-being of many, and gave his life partner great permission to be who he was and what he needed, even as he, too, was very ill for a number of years.
The two books remind me of how beliefs evolve.
The two books remind me of how beliefs evolve. Both Christianity and Islam are nothing like they were at the beginning; neither one even had a name. Their evolutions have been noisy and turbulent and controversial and violent, but also compassionate and loving and giving.
I’ve also been looking at my own evolvement, from a missionary kid who resisted the religion of my parents, to college where I was trying to decide whether I was an atheist or an agnostic, and what the actual differences between the two were. Even then, I was reading religious books for some unknown reason. Then I was heavily involved in politics and not interested in any of that stuff. But then when I was exposed to psychic/spiritual teachings after moving to San Francisco, I made a complete belief system turnaround and embraced it totally, knowing it was my truth.
…I made a complete belief system turnaround….
But there are still personal evolutions happening, there have to be if you look at yourself on a regular basis.
When people die, and you look at how belief systems evolve, you can see how important even one individual can be, and how important you are to yourself and to those around you – even though your life on earth in this lifetime is temporary. We can’t stop creating, growing and evolving, it is our nature. Creativity comes in all forms and through all peoples. We resist, we judge, we change, we grow, we love, we evolve.
We also live on as spirit, to live and contribute and create some more.
This is how we are as spiritual beings. Even though we live and die in a body, we contribute in some way to ourselves and to others, even if we don’t realize it. We also live on as spirit, to live and contribute and create some more.
I remember a former boss telling me how he was complaining about his problems to his barber one day, and the barber said, “Well, it’s a good thing you’re alive to complain, isn’t it?” That stopped my former boss in his tracks, and he stopped complaining.
It’s a good thing you’re alive to complain!
That’s what we can do. Appreciate who we are and how we’re evolving, because we are. Be grateful to be alive to evolve, knowing that our presence and creativity will be appreciated in some way, because we have contributed to the evolvement of all spiritual beings, as well as the planet.
This is the season where the planet is evolving to autumn, so we can all be grateful for that evolvement!
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Best regards,
Rev. Laura Hopper
Originally posted September, 2019
