Epitaph

Epitaph
At this point, the somber and sobering maxim: the party's over, has a resounding punch.

For many of us, we were completely clueless regarding this supposed festive shindig as daily activities were often trite, uninspiring, or loomed more like an ongoing nightmare cluttered with challenges, disappointments, and failures that amassed like a festering contagion.

Being human is complex and conflicting.

Mandatory care of the physical body, which is a temple for the precious Soul, is all inclusive and exhausting, leaving little time for your neglected embedded quiet Soul who drives this whole human experience.

Hearing the Soul's soft whisper can go unnoticed, and if it is detected, can be easily dismissed by the persistent and deafening external shenanigans.

Tending to the body and honoring and exalting your indwelling Higher Self is the grandest of paradoxes, replete with contradiction and implausibility.

With a multitude of exceedingly more compelling and conspicuous competition coercing externally, the likelihood of the Soul attracting one's attention diminishes with each beep of the iPhone, frightening news alert, crammed schedule, and daily missteps.

Sometimes, recalibration is attained by a jarring event that presses the pause button and halts the outward drama, such as illness, relationships combusting, or job loss, which shove the superficialities of humanism aside and realign the physical and the spiritual dynamics.

Other instances may harness a dark night of the soul, which can be a drastic depressing measure, but always produces an upending transformative outcome by collapsing one's prior precepts of the meaning of life and therefore setting the stage for what is to come.

The intermediary period rocks individuals to their core, discharging the ego and its contracted beliefs, and thereby rendering individuals as a blank canvas in which the Holy One will design a marvelous masterpiece for His purpose.

It is a beautiful purification and refining process.

As children created from and of God's eternal Light, the darkness can be quite disquieting, and accompanied by perceived isolation from the Lord can feel devastating.

Most Saints can attest to the rigors and visceral threats of this staunch methodology, which leads to the fulfillment of the Almighty's directives and will.

Many relinquished family, worldly possessions, and sacrificed everything for God's calling.

Their epitaphs may have read: pure hearted, beloved, faithful, God's warrior, as a loving commemorative tribute to those who marched in the Lord's footsteps.

Once it is all said and done, what inscription will remain of you?

There is still time to make amends and adjustments.

Common and concise epitaphs inscribed in stone prevail globally and acknowledge loss and love for a special someone who has departed and left their mark.

We, like saints, are created and beckoned for God's purpose.

Saints are no different than you; they simply embraced the call and revealed God's majesty to the world.

What will your legacy be?

~ "So, now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love," 1 Corinthians 13:13.~

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