”I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.” – Rumi
Hello my lovelies. Today I’m going to write a bit about the much dreaded word “death” but in a good light. This concept may seem a bit morbid at first glance because we’re taught from a young age that death is such a horrible part of life, but bare with me because there is a positive side to death that many don’t consider.
I feel compelled from time to time to share a very personal life story in hope that it resonates with others. It is a story that is deeply lodged in my heart and soul because it’s when the beautiful life that I live today begun. It is a short story of a day when I experienced a very intimate near encounter with death. It’s when I got to know GOD up close and personal. Not because I went to heaven and came back. It was because I had the opportunity to personally experience God’s grace. The gift of life was given to me one more time.
I had just 5 more minutes, they said, before I’d bleed to death. I don’t have much of a conscious recollection but I do recall feeling a sense of great love & peace…I wasn’t scared at all. I didn’t fear death in the midst of it and I no longer feared death when I woke up…but what I woke up fearing was “not living”. The first recollection I have is waking up and being petrified by the idea of my precious child losing his mom. Then it occurred to me…I may have had a pulse but my child’s mom hadn’t been or felt alive in years. He deserved so much more!
From this experience, I’ve learned to have a new appreciation for death. It is a fact that we’re all going to die so we might as well accept that it will happen and that we can’t control when it happens. What we can control is how alive we feel between birth & death.
Death, my friends, was my biggest teacher in this lifetime. It taught me to appreciate each breath, each heartbeat. It taught me to stop delaying the full & beautiful life I was born to live. It taught me to live vibrantly, love immensely, laugh hard & often, always forgive, help others live a better life, have more compassion. It taught me to never ever stop appreciating how amazing the experience of being alive is. It taught me to keep digging deep into my heart and soul until I found the most loving part of me and my essence for living.
Life and death are both tremendous gifts my friends…one just reminds us constantly of how precious the other one is. Death is nothing but a constant whisperer that says: Live freely, love deeply, impact positively!
Have a fabulous weekend! Much love to all of you!?
Dee
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