June 14, 2006

entry for june 14, 2006 jun 13, '06 11:44 pm for everyone I was thinking about how man is made in God's image. It occurs to me that neither a man, nor a woman is really in God's image, but the two, joined, fit His image rather well. Consider God as the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Then look at a truly loving couple, soulmates if you will, there's a lesser parallel: The Husband, The Wife, and the spirit of love that surrounds them. This is how we are made into God's image. This thought brings me to soulmates, we've all heard about them, the lucky ones of us have met ours, and unfortunately, I, among others, have lost mine. (see previous blogs) So, can there be more than one soulmate? Is there a chance for me, and others like me, to find that degree of love and happiness in our lives again? What, exactly is a soulmate? I think there are soul-matches out there, and that when we find a soul-match, that as we date, and get to know that person, their soul, and ours will begin to become more than a match, or that the match will grow to be all-encompassing. Eventually, a soul-match will grow into a soulmate. In becoming soulmates, our individual souls merge into a greater soul, shared by the soulmates, so that together they are apparently more than the two halves, and as fellow humans, we can all feel this difference to some degree or another. That's the Union, under God that we all need so fundementally that we crave it, or conversely, give up, and turn our backs on it. When a soulmate dies, then the one left feels something more than grief. You feel that a part of you has been amputated, or more accurately, that some indefinable part of you has been torn away. This is the loss of the "joined soul" that you've grown accustomed to,and that you need so badly to feel whole. It feels like you'll never be whole again, although your own soul is still left in place, and intact. You feel less than you were, and indeed you are! The rub here, is to realize that this is what's happening to you, and that God, in His Wisdom, and in His Own time, will heal you, and then bring you into contact with other soul-matches, because to be soulmates is the Natural Way of being for Humankind. We flounder, we fall, we get into all the wrong relationships because we don't want to wait, we are impatient children, and this is more true for those who have never found a soulmate than those of us who've lost one, because we have a yardstick to measure with, if we've come to realize the truth about soulmates, and trust in God's guidance. I'm not sure that I've fully expressed this thought, so there may be more to come. If anyone has questions, or wants to discuss this further, I would be more than happy to converse with you. (6 years later... I had left Christianity behind me long before Laurie's death. At the time and in my grief, I suffered a relapse because it does give the mind some comfort in believing what they teach. Now, I've come to understand that Man wasn't made in God's image. God was made in man's image. There may or may not be a God out there, I sincerely hope that there is, but I'm almost certain that if there is, He/She/It/They are most emphatically NOT the God of Churchianity.) ©F.Pierce