The Truth about Death

I was there, many years ago as a youngster, when the military came to inform my Mother that "your son will not be coming home". I was there when they left and I stood at the end of the dining room table watching her, not knowing what to think or what to do. And then she turned to me and reached out saying "the tears that I shed are the tears of love". And every year around Memorial Day I relived that feeling of sadness and grief. But her words that day had lived with me and I kept trying to figure out the hidden meaning of her words. They kept nagging at me and then something happened to me that revealed to me the Truth about death.

One day I was sitting alone at the kitchen table and I was staring at a beautiful bouquet of flowers when Something came over me. It was a divine feeling that cannot be put into words, It was beyond words and thoughts. All I can say is that It was a wonderful feeling of the supernatural or spiritual love of God. But the amazing thing that I realized was that this feeling was exactly the same feeling I would have when I felt sadness for the death of someone. How could that be? And then my Mother's words came back to me "the tears that I shed are the tears of love". How could she have had tears of love in the face of death?

And then I realized that my Mother had given me the Golden Key that unlocked her secret message to me. I had felt sadness for the death of someone because of my ignorance of the Truth that we have no life of our own to die, that there is only one life and that Life is the Life, the Love, of God. So, the Truth about death is that there is no death for we can never be separated from Life because the only place we can exist is in the Life and Love of God. "Thou shall have no other God's before me" means that we will not acknowledge any life other than the Life of God and that was confirmed by Jesus when he said "call no man on earth your father, there is but one Father above'.