I am a Christian, but also don't stick rigidly to one set of church teachings. I do believe that there is an after life, when this body decays. Whether it will be on this earth, or in Heaven I can't answer. But, I do believe that we continually evolve as human beings, either in a good or a bad way. I hope and pray that I am more spiritually aware now than say even a year ago. It would depress me to think that this life is all that there is, with all of its pain and sorrows. People say that life is what you make it, but some things, e.g. illness, or others peoples attitudes can be outside of our control. I strive to be kind to people, to pray for them, to help them, and most of all to encourage them. There are a lot of lonely people out there. One other thing, my dear Mum has been physically dead for just over three years. Before she died she was in a kind of coma for 14 months and was in a nursing home, she didn't know me or anyone else, as far as I am aware. I visited her very often and found time to hold her hands and tell her all of the things that I had been unable to say to her before. But, I cried every day, to see her in that state, and in pain too. One day, I cried out to God, please heal her or take her home to be with you. That night I got a phone call, she had died peacefully in her sleep. I have to believe, for my own sanity, that she is somewhere lovely and at peace, resting in the arms of Jesus. This is what my faith tells me, but also my heart. Would be glad of any comments.
