As
I was riding my bike around Saint James City, here on Pine Island, in South
Florida, the sky was so blue it almost hurt my eyes. I started thinking about
the idea that what we see is not “real” but there is a reason why things appear
the way they do.
For
example, the reason the sky looks so blue is because as light move through the
atmosphere, very little of the red, orange, and yellow light (longer
wavelengths) is affected by it. Much more of the light with shorter wavelengths is
absorbed by the gas molecules. Thus, blue light fills the sky, and some of it
reaches my eyes, and the sky looks blue.
As
I was riding and having these profound scientific ponderings, I began to hear a
little jingle in my head. “If the sky is not blue, then who am I, and what are
you?” I went automatically to a book I have written that is not yet been
published.
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| This drawing is by Meredith Bede Aldrich. |
Where Moon Go?
A look at
life and
death
and other
natural things
through a
child’s eyes…
Did you ever wonder
where someone
goes when he or she
dies?
I did.
When my Daddy died, I
wanted to know where he was and if
he was OK where he
was.
I wanted to know what
was REAL….
At first I did not know what it meant when I
would hear a voice talking to me from inside my head as the moon slid behind a
cloud or a tree or a building.
I would hear.
“Where am I now?
It looks like I am
gone,
but I am here….”
Even when what is
real is very, very big
—like the moon—
false beliefs can be hard
to change.
But where do people go when they die?
Adam said,
“It is like I am me
and
I am inside this
house.
(He pointed to his
chest when he said this.)
When I die,
I leave the house
(He pointed to his
chest again.)
but I am still me.”
But what is he?
And what am I?
And where do people go when they die?
Every living thing is
made up of atoms.
(Not Adam!)
And energy cannot be
created or destroyed.
If you're asking
where it all came from in the first place,
that's a first class
unanswered question.
Brad said when people
die they live inside your heart.
It is
like you can really talk to them inside your mind.
Go ahead.
Ask a question.
And you
will see that it is just like they really can answer you.
So, even though we
might not know for sure where people
go when they die, you can know for sure that part of them is right here where
you are.
Because the moon has
not gone anywhere.
It is still right
where it was.
Even when we cannot
see it.
The End
And
A New
Beginning
