Embraced By The Light

Every 6 months I re read this book.  It's powerful.  This girl had a near death experience that is astounding.  She went to the spirit world and remembers things in detail.  I love thinking of Taryn there.  In all that glorious color and light.  It comforts me.  I downloaded it to Audible and listen to it for a few hours.  It's more than an account of her experience, it's a healing, a teaching of sorts.  Each time I listen to it I take something else away from it.  This time I took away that I need to love myself in order to fully love others.  It makes total sense.  If your pitcher is empty you can't fill anyone's cup.  Forgiveness starts with forgiving yourself too.  There are no sins in life that aren't teaching or learning experiences.  We don't have to think of the things we did wrong in life as things that will prevent us from moving forward.  No one is perfect but Jesus himself.  We only do our best and he fills in the gap so we can get where we're going.

It's like building a bridge.  We're on one side of the gorge.  We need to get to the other side and we build as much of that bridge as we can in this life and at the end if we come up short Jesus finishes the bridge with his sacrifice for us.  It's not a lost cause if we don't do everything right here.  That's important to realize because discouragement can stop you from moving forward with your goals and your self improvement.   We only lose when we stop trying.  When we give up.  The key is to never give up on ourselves.  To admire our efforts and like who we are.  Always be the best YOU that is possible to be.  Love others.  Love ourselves.  

The greatest commandment of all is to love others as we love ourselves.  JC said it himself.  Love is powerful.  It's all that matters in the world.  When we show love we do good things.  When we feel love we are motivated to succeed.  There is a total lack of LOVE in this world.  If more people felt it and acted on it there would be joy and happiness everywhere.  So much that hate and evil would crumble.  

I love the descriptions in this little book about the after life.  That there is so much more to our existence then what we have here.   We are here to learn to love and improve ourselves.  It's a kind of school of sorts.  The Harvard of our existence.  Always wanted to go to Harvard.  LOL

 Yep.  That's me in front of the gates to Harvard University in 2012.  I went to visit my Aunt Sharon and deliver a puppy to a sweet couple in Boston.  I went on a tour of Cambridge and had to see the college.  It was thrilling.  I loved it.  I loved the "feel" of it.  I completely envied the people who were fortunate enough to go to school there and graduate with a degree from there.  Will I feel that way about graduating from this life after it's all over?  I think I will.  I think Taryn did an amazing job at life.  She endured so much hardship in her medical issues.  She lived with pain every day of her life and didn't complain much at all.  Hardly anyone knew she suffered the way she did because from the outside she "looked" normal.  Inside she was a mess.  Her little body was held together by titanium rods.  The tumors had all but dissolved her spinal cord.  It was a miracle she could even walk. I am and always will be so proud of her.  I never told her that enough.  I hope she knows it now.