Role Model

 

Whether you like it or not we are all role models.

There is always someone watching us and ready to copy what we do. It could be our children, grand-children, relatives, friends, colleagues or even neighbours or people we do not know. 

We really cannot help being a role model. It is not up to us.

What is up to us is whether we are a good or a bad role model.

Do we set a good example by the way we live, what we say, how we behave and how others see us?

Are we the life and soul of the party, or do we brighten up the place by just leaving it?

When we are dead and gone will people talk about who we were or what we have done? 

Consider this: Years ago, if you were a Christian people would respect you perhaps, or be polite to you; even if they did not agree with your beliefs. Today, they would most probably ridicule you behind your back and think you're a bit weird in believing in an old man with a beard sitting on a cloud trying to oversee the world.  

Being a role model carries a lot of responsibility. Have we by our example led other people to an eternity in Paradise ... or to the other place?

And here is the real test: If you were another person watching you, would you want to copy what you are doing in life and the way you live?

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?