Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Death does not come when the body is too exhausted to live. Death comes because the brilliance inside of us can only be contained for so long. We do not die. We pass on.
The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. The next greatest adventure is death. Death is the natural progression of the human spirit. Not the end, but a new beginning in a realm we cannot fathom.
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.
We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness as we know it.
A couple of weeks ago, my father’s spirit passed on into its next adventure. A few days ago my granddaughter’s spirit entered a body that took its first breath and cried its first cry. She began her evolution of consciousness. Into her father’s hands, she felt her first touch, opened her eyes and saw her mother’s face.
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
My children and career have given me that sense of wholeness, and my husband compliments that. Watching the grandchildren enter this world, looking down at them looking up at me, gives me a sense of continuity that I do not believe I would have achieved had I decided to remain childless.
The God of our understanding has entrusted us to participate in the enlargement of her soul, liberation of her spirit, and the lighting up of her brain. For that and all things, I am grateful.
S.K. Nicholls 
This is beautiful. I love the concept of continuity. When one life goes, another enters. And I’ve always loved the lyrics to that Live song. Congratulations on your new granddaughter. What a beautiful moment.
Thank you, Carrie. It is continuity that makes life such a special thing. Whether we have children or touch the world in some other way, our spirit brushes past and moves on. For me, personally, the receipt and passing on has meaning.
Amen.
I love this, Susan! Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful granddaughter.
Yay! What a special moment! Thanks, Jill
Nice post, and congratulations.
Thanks Craig. She’s beautiful. 😀
Beautifully said. Adorable picture.
Thanks, Charles. Her little fingers seemed so fragile. And to think, she’ll probably be using them to pull her big sister’s hair before too long. HA!
I was amazed at how tiny my son’s fingers were, but the power in his grip. They’re surprisingly strong.
They certainly are. And at birth, they are at a peak of survival instinct, fighting for that first breath, grabbing onto life itself.
And practicing for their nightly howling choruses. 🙂
Yeah, according to mama, she’s got that well under way. 😉 Grandmother doesn’t have to be around for all that 🙂
Gotta love the escape. Not that I have that option, but it’s something to look forward to.
What a beautiful photo and thoughts. Congrats on welcoming your new baby granddaughter into the world. That photo is simply endearing!
Thank you, Mae. I liked it best because she is staring directly up at me. Not sure what she was able to see, my form maybe, but there was a connection. 🙂
This brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much for sharing! And congrats again on the new little person in your family.
Thank you, Barb, for reading and commenting. Life goes full circle, doesn’t it?
Congratulations – she’s beautiful!
Thanks! We think so, too!
Very beautiful, Susan. Congratulations to you and your family.
Thank you, Sue. We’re a fairly happy bunch 🙂
With every reason 🙂
This is fabulous. I prefer to believe there is a continuation. ❤
Congratulations for the little angle in your midst. {{hugs}}
Me too, Tess ❤
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Happy thoughts on the arrival of the little one. This was a powerful piece.
Thanks, John. My sons aren’t eager to have kids. Bryan and Sarah have talked about it as a possibility, but they aren’t jumping at the bit. Daniel is content without a woman in his life. Andrew isn’t planning anything either. Katrina is about done at three (so she says). This may be our last little one.
A blessing.
Susan, congratulations on the beautiful new addition to your family! Such a blessing and on the heels of your father’s passing, too. Xoxo
Yeah. It’s kinda strange, but my first granddaughter was born on the anniversary of my mother’s death. My first grandson was born on her birthday. This one was close to my father’s death. Puts happiness into what might be dreary circumstances.
Yes, that is very magical and mysterious, too.
Nothing like the alert eyes of a newborn – intimate photo you’ll cherish forever. Love the Schopenhauer quote too, Susan.
But a moment in time. I asked my grandmother once if she thought I would live to see the end of the world. She answered, “Every day you wake up and put your feet on the floor the world has ended as you knew it to be yesterday.” I stopped worrying about it.
These words of yours are beautiful: Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
February was an eventful month for us in 1977. Days after my dad died in the United States, my sister’s son was born. My mother-in-law died the same week in Singapore, and my sister-in-law had a baby girl a few days after that. We lived in the Philippines then. I flew back home, and two days later my husband heard that his mom had died unexpectedly. He left our three daughters with an old college friend and flew to Singapore. Our sadness was soon followed by the joy of two new lives.
Wow…so much going on in such a short period of time….and all around the world. We are most certainly spiritually connected by forces we can only begin to try to understand.
I am finally catching up on blogs. Your new granddaughter is absolutely precious. I love that photo of you and her. Congratulations to you and to her parents!
Thanks Merril. She’s a good baby, too. Which is really a blessing for mama 🙂
Yes, indeed! 🙂
What a powerful and beautiful post. Great song, too! Congratulations on the new baby. We’re waiting for the call too. Another girl. Your precious granddaughter is absolutely beautiful. Great picture!
Thanks Sue. The family grows 🙂
I find the thought that as one soul departs this world, another enters it. The circle of life. It’s a beautiful thing.
Beautiful, too, is your lovely granddaughter. Warm congratulations, my friend.
Thank you Kate, It is the circle of life. my grandson was born on my mother’s birthday and my first granddaughter was born on the anniversary of my mother’s death making it a much more joyous time for me.
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