The Author's Corner: The Pages of Life

When does life really start? Is it when we are born? Most would say yes to that last question. Could this life we have now be a staging ground for what life really is? Is every day just a page in our life story? Does our life continue even after we die? Some hard questions I have to say.

The pages of our life are written between birth and death which is from the beginning of our life’s story. The reason is because for those of you who believe in a soul, the soul lives on after the physical death. When the physical death happens, our soul may know and then it moves on with the beginning of the next page of our journey.

Everyday in our lives are marked with the sun rise and then it sets. Simple is the key here, what we do during the days shape us into who we are. We are brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, children and a good number of us are parents. In saying that our days are filled with activities. Most of us work during the day and have the evenings for visiting friends and such.

For what this time we have now, which is in between birth and death, is just the beginning of our spiritual journey that we are on. We learn the lessons that are needed to help us understand who we are. Some of those lessons come from our religious fate. What we believe the world to be and if there is a God/the Creator will guide us through our lives.

In the time that is our spiritual journey, we will continue on for, well I can not answer that because no one has come back from the dead to tell us. When we have near death experiences, I feel that is when the physical death does happen. The reason I say that is because I have been there myself. I saw my body, nothing but skin and bones laying in a hospital bed with a cross above my head. After that moment I had with God/the Creator, I feel

I was in the afterlife.

When I woke up the next day after that experience, I felt differently. It was like a lightness in my step and all the unanswerable questions that I had were understood more than answered. What happened that night, I will never know. All I know is my life changed.

Sometimes we find the answers to what this part of life is only known when we pass from the physical world. What are the pages of life? You can tell me because they are different for everyone who lives in this world.

Stay safe.