What a baby!

We cry so much coming into this world because we were so comfotable with where we are, but eventually when it comes time for our death we don't want to leave this earth because we are so comfortable here.

How do we know that, like in the womb, we are in this world only to develope and get ourselves ready for what is to come next.

It takes nine months for our bodies to form in the womb. We grow fingers, legs, a mouth and ears not because we need them in the womb, but because we need them for what is coming after the womb.

If we had the ability to understand when we were a fetus, I wonder if we would say "why am I growing this mouth? I certainly am not using it", "why am I growing these legs? Surely they are of no use!" or "why do I have these eyes when it's so dark" we soon later would realize how we really don't know anything.

I wonder if this life is the same way, we may ask "why is it nessesary to work for perfection in my life? I will never reach it and as far as I get I will still die in the end".but what if our struggles to love our enemy, our struggles to lessen our pride actually is something that we will need all the more in what comes next.

Sure a baby in the womb does use his/her legs to kick, or does use his mouth for sucking his thumb, but he/she will soon realize a better purpose for his legs than to just kick, etc.
We may learn that sure if we are nice to everyone people will be nice back or if we lessen our pride we can learn more, but will we soon realize that there are actually more advanced benefits to our struggles in what comes next?

Just some thoughts.

your friend,

 -Isaac Deitz