Hint From Above

When I was a child, I began to real­ize that I could not take it all in. I could not expe­ri­ence all that was around me. There is no way to fully expe­ri­ence any­thing. All we get are nib­bles and tastes. Even the most ful­fill­ing expe­ri­ence is short-lived. It was (and still is) frus­trat­ing. It is impos­si­ble to fully expe­ri­ence anything.

It would take as many life­times as there have been humans to get a sense of what it is to be fully human. There is more to be seen on this lit­tle planet than any­one can ever see. Even if you could accom­plish some­thing so grand, all you have to do is look at the night sky to real­ize that you have not even got­ten started.

It must be nice to be God — to be able to expe­ri­ence all things simul­ta­ne­ously. Then again, there is a lot of pain out there too. Maybe that is why the Cre­ator most clearly depicted the meet­ing point of Char­ac­ter and human­ity was in the per­son of a cru­ci­fied carpenter/rabbi. There is so much joy mixed with so much pain.

The fact that we can­not take it all in is a hint from above that there is more to come. One of the for­mal argu­ments for life after death and life eter­nal (unlim­ited life quality) is just this one point: we can­not take it all in. We are being given a taste of infi­nite pos­si­bil­i­ties. It will take a never-ending exis­tence to expe­ri­ence some­thing eternal.

That is where I am putting my time, money and all other life bets.