Are We There Yet?

I had a massage instructor who had the best answer to that question. "You're already there, you just haven't arrived.". Seriously, Think about that for just a moment. Those of people with an eternal perspective probably catch on far quicker than those without. I have every bit of confidence everyone will catch it though.

We are already there. Our bodies, and minds know exactly where our choices are going even if our hearts don't. We come to this Earth with everything needed to heal ourselves. Heal emotionally and physically. Our 'energy' permiates the world around us so deeply that it can be photographed. We sense things and know that there are people who are endlessly important to us. Chance encounters that give us a 'gut feeling' that we've known this person before. Almost like there is a piece of us living out this life before we even get there. In the end we all die. Some of us die faster than the rest of you, but it is the great equalizer. No one escapes death. It's hands are not cold, they are liberating. Death brings us to our final destination. The point in time that we have been striving to arrive at. The blessed moment when all that we are, ever have been, and could become is ours. We struggle and strain, we work and toil, we labor ceaselessly to arrive at a point. Death opens the door we've been knocking on and checks us in. I doubt that any of us are truely ready to arrive. We think we are so prepared, we believe we have it all down, but the moment we see the warm light from the other side of deaths door we wince knowing we weren't quiet ready. How can this be? simple. . . We're already there, we just haven't arrived. We know before the door opens what lies on the otherside. We've spent our whole lives either frittering away and not arriving, or walking towards what we know is there. So, the next time someone asks "Are we there yet?" the answer should be " We're already there, We just haven't arrived.".