Robert E. Makara - Unity

UNITY

ROBERT E. MAKARA

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/02/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-1567-2 (sc)

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CONTENTS

I fear death, for the pain and suffering of it all, but more so for the eternal unknown than the temporary. I believe most people share my fear, but few have been able to confront it, identify it and share it with others. A common concern shared by most, if not all, is one unifying element that may bring us together.

I should have confidence, because I feel I have lived a pretty good life, but life has taught me that nothing can be absolutely certain. I dont know everything, if not anything. There are two sides to every issue. How do I know I have lived a good life? I may be sadly mistaken. Maybe I have not been so good. Through ignorance or arrogance or both, I may be vastly mistaken. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam from thy own eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the speck from thy brothers eye. Matthew: 7:5. It would be an infinite mistake to fail in my desire to reach heaven, or, perhaps even worse, end up with eternal damnation, whatever that entails.

Or maybe God is not as compassionate and forgiving as I have been led to believe. Has this been just wishful thinking? Yet, I believe, which is different than I know. All the faith in the world cannot change the truth unless God so desires. Who am I to dictate the nature of God? What is is and what isnt is not.

The dove sweeps down every one million years and brushes its wing against a 12 diameter solid steel ball, and when that ball is worn down to nothing, eternity has just begun. Ive heard that somewhere. And, it is an understatement.

I dont know what Adolph Hitler was thinking when he gravitated to the idea, the fantasy, of creating a super race of humans, at the expense of all human differences, imperfections and weaknesses, a total abandonment of compassion for those who dont fit the mold. Did he believe he would some day live to see the reality of his dream? Did he think that he would survive death? What kind of eternal existence did he imagine for himself? Perhaps he thought he was doing mankind a great service by creating his master race by sacrificing the undesirable and devoting his own life in service to a dream that would be beneficial to those who survive. He died by his own doing, I guess out of fear of the consequences of paying for what he had done. Did he make his peace with God at the end? Or did he believe in despair that his failure meant the end of everything, from which there would be no further life in which justice would be met? Did he think that he had done good? Who knows what he may have been thinking during those final days.

None of us can fully understand what drove Hitler to the evil agenda that he pursued, but an intense patriotic devotion to his native Germany, the overly burdensome and unjust penalties imposed on Germany from World War I and, most of all, his excruciating temporary blindness following this war were major factors. He blamed these concerns and the loss of the war collectively on the Jews, Communists and other groups. He ignored the fact that each individual person is different. The trauma of blindness on the way to Damascus brought St. Paul to change from evil to good, while blindness brought Adolph Hitler from good to evil. Unknown predisposed thinking may have had much to do with their eventual changes of heart. The Natural Law may have been eating at St. Pauls heart, but passion, outrage and thoughts of revenge were eating at Adolphs. Only God would have a full understanding of these individuals who have had such major divergent affects on world history.

I believe Hitler must pay for his deeds. I believe in justice and restitution of some kind. But no matter how bad he may have been, is a million steel balls of inconceivable pain and suffering going to change all that? Will it ever be justice fulfilled for a miniscule number of years of delirious mistakes? And what is hell? Ive been told it is some form of intense physical suffering from fire. Light a match to your finger. How long can you bear it? (Dont try it.) Try to imagine your whole body in this condition for a million steel balls, plus a billion, and more.

I also have been led to believe that hell is the intense anguish of losing the vision of God forever, or that it may be of our choosing. The fear of fire is greater to me than losing God, but only because I have known physical pain, but my vision of God and his infinite love can only be a trifle at this point.

Yes, I fear death. I believe, but I really know nothing. Padre Pio said do not worry! This can be comforting. The unknown, however still presents the greatest fear of all. I hope God will forgive me for my lack of faith. I should regret lighting the fire of fear in any reader who heretofore may have been unconcerned beyond his/her daily concerns and joys of living oblivious to such distant realities. Maybe ignorance is bliss. Maybe everything will turn out ok. I believe so. Maybe Padre Pio was right.

This fear that many of us share now, points to the destiny or future that will inevitably arrive through the constant progression of time. Death is coming. We cannot escape it. So what can we do about it? Or should we even be concerned? Live and let live, and leave it all in Gods hands. He knows whats best. But what we do now may determine in some way the condition of our future.

If so, what we do in the present becomes of enormous importance. This factor must be the governing force for people the world over in what they do today and for the foreseeable future. Most of us may have an overblown sense of self-importance, but, justifiably, we may see clearly that each of us does have a role to play, assuming that our Creator does have a plan; otherwise, why would He create in the first place? Even though each of us is, in fact, a minute element of the Creators plan, our insignificant awareness can easily place ourselves in a most prominent role within that range of our awareness. The greater our awareness, the smaller the part we see ourselves as playing, but the more accurately would we see.

We have a very limited awareness of what makes up the whole, and we all have an awareness that varies significantly from one person to the next. This limitation invariably keeps that awareness less a part of the whole than we think. The more we realize how much we dont know, the smarter we become.

A Christian has his vision; it may work for him. But a Moslem sees a totally different vision; and it works for him. These visions work individually, but in a conglomerate world visions collide.