The Afterlife Gets Way Too Much Attention

Celebrate Your Aliveness

Leo Diaz 🌎
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Many fundamental religious folks live their entire lives fixated on life after death.

They adhere to certain “spiritual” practices simply to remain in the good graces of a fire-breathing God who they believe holds the keys to their version of the afterlife.

The driving force behind their belief is passage into “the world to come”

But what about the world that is?

I’m not in any way denouncing the existence of an afterlife. I believe there is one, though different than what we’ve been taught in Sunday school.

But true spiritual practice should largely be about life in the here and now — on finding our spiritual significance in our earthly, flesh and blood present reality.

The afterlife gets way too much attention.

Obsessing over it and believing in what we believe in for the sake of getting somewhere after we die only keeps us from doing what you and I were meant to do in the first place — making eternity a present experience.

How that’s done isn’t all that difficult.

It’s just a matter of learning to find God in our daily lives.

In our relationships.

In our interactions with nature.

In our creative and professional endeavors.

In the causes we stand up for.

In the heartbreak.

In the tragedies.

In the suffering.

In the pain of others.

In our differences.

One of the many things that I love about the life that Jesus lived was that he shows all of us that it’s okay to be human.

He proves that this whole thing is about sharing in the divine nature in this life and not in the one to come.

So, don’t think so much about tomorrow.

Celebrate your aliveness.

Finish up this post, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and be still in this moment.

Did you feel that?

That’s why you’re here.

Now go and share that.

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Leo Diaz 🌎

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Writer / Unpolished Exegete / MDiv / Husband / Daddy Make-Believe Astronaut

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