We get glimpses of the possibility that it works out far better than we ever could have imagined.
One of those glimpses recently for me has been "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." I have never even heard of anyone actually saying it, believing it, recommending it, or even understanding it. Yet it has been right there in front of us for thousands of years, stunningly beautiful and true.
It's not easy insight for bullies.
The latest glimpse that I got was while reading Charles Drayton Thomas' book. "Life beyond Death with Evidence," (1928).
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| Charles Drayton Thomas 1867-1953 |
The following passage is from p. 184 of that book, and is part of one spiritual conversation of many that he had with his father and sister, who had "died" twenty years earlier.
CBT: "I gather, from what you have told me, that it will be possible some day to re-enact all the brightest and best scenes from one's earthly life."
Father: "Yes, and also those which one has missed on earth; all that which was possible, but which did not come to fruition. When you come here you will find that which is difficult for me to express. You will realize the good of what you have done, and the happiness which you have had, and beyond that, also, the happiness which you might have had, and which, just because you might have had it, is still yours. This will include the things which were apparently taken from you, but which you let go willingly and not grudgingly; for those things you have made doubly, nay trebly, your own."
CDT: That sounds very beautiful.
Father: On coming here you will find it is a fact. That which is given up willingly, or which you see taken from you, yet you do not waste time in repining over, you have made yours. Whereas, things which men pursue, are the things they lose.
