Blog 317 – 06.14.2016

The rest of the line goes, “On a clear day you can see forever.” I am thinking of two movies from the recent past that share a similar theme. They are Limitless and Lucy and another movie sometime back had a like theme, Powder. These three movies and many others portray what life would be like if we could access more of our brain’s capacity to think and to see more clearly.

I just watched Lucy again recently and in the end of the movie the French policeman who was helping her asks, “Where is she.” His cell phone rings and the text says, “I am everywhere.” The theme of the Powder movie is similar. A great lightning bolt comes for him and his body is vaporized but in the resulting shock wave the three people who have come to know him best feel him all around them.

I lost my daughter almost four years ago to death. She was thirty two years old, one year younger than Jesus was. Some will think I have no right to compare my daughter to the Son of God. But as I believe she was not only my daughter but in an even greater sense Emily was the Daughter of God, compare her I do. As a proof text for my belief, a practice I learned years ago when I professed to be a Christian, I site Jesus’ own words, “As I am so are you in this world.”

I said I lost Emily but that is not true for she is and will always be a part of me. I actually have greater access to her and feel her presence more that when she was in her body. She lives not only in my memory but I filter much of my experience through lessons I learned from her.

On a clear day I can see that like Lucy and Powder she is everywhere and everything.
She is in that way so much like her Father. No, not the weak puny one so prone to pettiness and faults (me) but that Heavenly or Perfect Father all true dads aspire to be, our Higher Self if you will. On a clear day as the pilot in the poem High Flight I can put out my hand and touch the face of Emily, the highest and best in all of us including myself. I put out my hand and touch the face of God. “On a clear day, on a clear day, I can see forever, forever more.” I wish each and all clear skies and happy landings.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White