Change Your Heart

There's an interchange between life and death. Death sends its wisdom to us in the form of shocks - impromptu lessons which make us sit up and take notice: 'all the shocks that flesh is heir to'. These unexpected reversals and changes of fortune - blows of fate - would not count as belonging to the normal flow of life. They seem as if they have been thrust in from another world. And so they have: from the world of death, the place where all 'the arrows of outrageous fortune' are shaped and formed. They would remind us that we are citizens of two worlds and that we need to live up to the standards of both. There's all the time in the world after death to reflect but no chance whatsoever to undo what's been done or to change what's been left undone. Therefore, change your heart now.

Likewise - I believe - in the time after death does it not follow that there will be shocks too? Shocks sent in by life. Experiences that will make you sit up and think, 'If I had not paid heed to those lessons when I had the chance then I would be truly lying in the grave now, unable to move or see around me'. You will see with a shock that the very wings you move on, the very light of your eyes, were gifted to you by the way you attended to the spirit's intrusion in life. Therefore, again, change your heart now.

To change your heart for another means to give it all the blood of life and death. Not just to leave it up to shocks and fortune to do death's work in you. But to let the golden way of the life after death become your path in life, and to see its wisdom around you like ripe fields of corn. And at the same time to return to death the lustre of the living, the shine of its true breath, the goodness that can only be accumulated during life.

So change your heart for another today

and give it all the blood of life and death,

that death may give to life its golden way

and life return the lustre of its breath.

There's little virtue left in living now

when all that's out of body is denied,

and what is there to live for anyhow

if soul and spirit's breath is never tried?

Jay

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