Episode 90. I Rode the A Train to Eternity (a garden conversation at The Cloisters that stirred my soul)

Earthly life teaches us what part we each have in the story of God’s Genesis. How we work through our mortality in God’s story about His eternity.

And the one most jarring earthly collision with the soul, that feeling of spiraling isolation when death is at someone’s door. Someone you love is leaving you alone in this world.

That “deep knowing” we gain. A painful epiphany that cannot be debated. Being mortal is a solo act. For everyone.

After a few minutes of sharing the presence of a mighty God, a God who brings peace, comfort, wisdom, and all the promises of His heavenly kingdom, somehow—and to this day I do not know how we went from mortality to moving—somehow we found the timing to get up from the bench, and continue walking.

My soul was stirring. My soul was spinning. My soul told me what I knew in that moment.

Mortality is when someone whose terminal illness is imminent tells you they can't get their head around not being on earth in a few short months. We just don’t get the end of earthly life. We just can't mentally write the end.

What was spiritually sobering for me in this conversation was hearing a human accept mortality in the only way possible. Personally. A given. With an estimated time. The time at hand. And it is not that realization that was of eternal value to me, it was sharing that moment, that moment when being mortal AND being eternal held us together.

James 4:14

14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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