Spirit in the Sky

I have a sneaky suspicion that many people don't know ... don't realise even ... that they are a spirit. Like a ghost perhaps, or like an Angel; but an invisible spirit inhabiting a body.

When we wake up in the morning the first thing we see in the mirror is a face. We see a body. Our body, and that of others. We recognise each other by our bodies. Big ones, small ones, thin ones and rotund ones as well as sexy ones and so on. When a baby is born the first thing we see is a body. A big or small baby, with blue eyes and dark hair, a boy or a girl. We grow accustomed as we grow up to focus on the body in everything that we do.

Over the years, it is the body that makes us feel who we are. It hurts when we are ill or sick, or when we are injured, or as we grow old. It is always the body that is in the forefront of our minds, who we are, and how we live.

Often, it is only when someone dies that we consider that there is more than just a body. We say that person is in "Heaven"; whatever we consider Heaven to be.

How can a person be in Heaven when we see them here lying in a coffin?

It is only then that perhaps we consider the possibility of there being a soul, a spirit. And even then, there are those who believe there is no soul and when someone dies this is the end. Nothing more. No afterlife. No eternity.

This perhaps explains why so many people are so focussed on the here and now. Today. This life. Get what you can from it because when you're gone you're long time dead. 

They don't believe in eternity. They don't believe in spirits either.

Do you?