Hey Lou!!!! I just read what you have said to Roger....I was just going to reply to his post.......and say the very things that you just did!!!
So 'hello' Roger!! I thought what you had posted there brought up some really interesting points. You know, 8 years ago, I lost a very good friend....not thru death, but thru my divorce. My ex husbands brother was my very good friend......we lost touch only because of the 'ills of divorce'.....
My ex brother in law and I were extremely close on a spiritual level. I believe that he was my spiritual leader....his presence in my life was for a reason....'things always happen for a reason'. We could talk for hours....and literally hours on this subject. He helped me to understand so much about our spiritual selves. I feel like I knew more then than I do now......I've become 'lost'...
I am not going to use words like "I believe......'......because it's not quite like that...its more like "I feel......"....and I feel that in the afterlife, we can't learn the same kind of lessons There as we can here. It's different There....you can learn lessons There, but not the same type as we can here. I feel as though there is a physical component on what we learn thru lessons here....and the emotional/spiritual component is what we take with us. I don't think that anyone wants to come back as a murderer.......or as someone to do any other kind of horrible crime to mankind....but I think that there are specific learning lessons in those crimes, that can only come from such actions....as horrible as that might sound. And I don't think that the lessons to be learned are for the sole benefit of the person doing such awful things.....the person on the receiving end learns alot too.
What we learn from different experiences is what makes us who we become.....maybe to learn fully 'compassion'.....or 'remorse'.....
I remember reading somewhere once, that in the afterlife are different levels....and the higher the level you are in, the better of understanding and spiritual power you gain. The better your life is in the afterlife....and to get to those higher levels, you need to have 'passed' the tests....which you can only complete here on earth. I mentioned here somewhere in a previous posting, about what the Bible says on : in my Father's House, are many dimensions.......
I don't believe in the old way of Christian thinking...that Heaven is just a one time thing.....I believe that it is a place of many levels and it's not just a matter of 'you die and get to go to Heaven'....and then 'be' happily ever after'......I really believe that it is more of a place of advancement...of higher learning and understanding.....and that if you haven't learned the true power of say, remorse. to get to where you want to be...then you're gonna come back here and do something that is going to teach you what remorse really means. And hey...if you're a slow learner...then you're gonna have to repeat the lesson a few times until you get it....
Well......I could very well be wrong in my beliefs....I know I have a long way to go in my understanding....but I am confident that I am on the right path.
Back in 1998 I was taking a college program....in one course I wrote this huge report......my instructor immediately recognized the light that was within me......and she openly encouraged me to continue on my spiritual path to learn, grow and to let that white light shine brightly.
I wonder if it would be safe to say that those souls that seem to get lost in 'limbo'......maybe they are stuck there not because they got confused and lost on the way 'up'.....maybe they just got stuck because they failed to pass any lesson at all while here....and now they just have no where to go at all??? Maybe they can't even come back here to try the lesson again because they haven't been able to gain any spiritual power thru learned lessons while still here in this life?? Would that make any sense?? ???