Last night I woke to the sound of Sam coughing at 3 am and could not go back to sleep. I suddenly felt I was finally ready to watch The Passion of the Christ, a movie that was released in 2004. For 7 years I wanted to watch Mel Gibson's vision of Christ's final day but was put off by his explicit graphic style. But like everything else in life, there is a time and place for everything.
As the movie unfolded it occurred to me that we all have a piece of Christ in our souls. The desire to reach out and help another, or even to sacrifice our own lives for another, is a basic nature of the soul. And to deny this basic nature is to deprive our soul of a fundamental need. To ignore this basic nature is to go against the Divine intention. In this sense it is a sin, because we are going against our Godly nature.
The second thing I realized last night is that not only each of us has a unique path to reach God (or Enlightenment, or Oneness, or Transcendence), but the arrival time of such a state is also unique for each one of us. Its arrival cannot be accelerated before its time...such is the way of our perfect universe.
As the movie unfolded it occurred to me that we all have a piece of Christ in our souls. The desire to reach out and help another, or even to sacrifice our own lives for another, is a basic nature of the soul. And to deny this basic nature is to deprive our soul of a fundamental need. To ignore this basic nature is to go against the Divine intention. In this sense it is a sin, because we are going against our Godly nature.
The second thing I realized last night is that not only each of us has a unique path to reach God (or Enlightenment, or Oneness, or Transcendence), but the arrival time of such a state is also unique for each one of us. Its arrival cannot be accelerated before its time...such is the way of our perfect universe.
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