Blog 653 – 06.04.2017
Distance, The Illusion

Time was before we tamed horses to ride or pull carts, invented bicycles, or created automobiles, that it might take the greater part of a day to walk across town to visit a friend. In the olden days, my youth, long distant phone charges were such a luxury for most that even close friends kept in touch with letters and post cards that took days to travel across the miles. Today, even with our so many ways of instant communication we still buy into this illusion of distance between. We are never more than a thought away from those we love and we think the same thoughts.

Even bridges or walls are only constructs really in our minds that seem to join us or divide us. The poet has said, “No man is an island.” I read something that said the more evolved we are in our thinking the more we realize the concept of at-one-ment, atonement, or Oneness. Many religious people think of Atonement as requiring a great price or sacrifice having to be made to close the gap or bridge the divide. But I suppose in was always only in our mind. Probably it is even in a sense a bit redundant to say, “I will never leave you.” What was actually said was, “I am with you always.” Always was, am now, and always will be. That shoots the idea of there being any real distance between right square in its pointy head.

I realize that many of you might think that I have a pretty skewed view of a lot of things and I do not deny it. I have come to think trying to see things from other angles and view points can really be a plus, at least it is for me. I remember thinking forty-seven years ago as I spent eleven months on the other side of the earth from where I was born, grew up, and from where most all of the people that I knew were located, that I was so far, far away from home. I was not, for home and all I loved was in my heart. Both of my parents, my daughter, and a host of other family and friends (Same thing to me) have left their bodies and moved on. At first I thought, “I will miss them so for they are so far, far away.” But now I realize they are not for they are at home and home is in my heart. And Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within you.” I think at least part of what he might have meant by that is that Love lives in us all and with that Love there is no distance nor height nor depth or anything or any creature that can separate or keep us apart from those we love.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David White