If All is Illusion. . .

I was alone; all alone. Or so I thought. I tried walking on water. I knew I could because if water is frozen it is hard enough to hold my body. I sank. The water was not frozen. Even though I imagined it was. I know that if I imagine something, it is real. The water in the pond was just water.

I tried something else. I lay down next to the pond. I closed my eyes. Imagined I was weightless. I knew if I were weightless I could float in the air. Just like a red balloon. I soared through the air. I rolled over to look at the pond. And got a mouthful of grass. Opened my eyes. I was lying on the ground.

I have always been taught that if one truly believed, the belief became true. A great philosopher taught that man could walk on water if he had the faith of Jesus. All he had to do was believe. Truly believe.

Are all these stories just myths? Just illusions in the minds of the ancient religious leaders handed down in the traditions of the churches. Is all that I have learned in my life wrong? Ae the teacher and the ministers that I have looked up to and have guided me in times of trouble been lying to me all these years?

I am broken! I am broken by the reality that all is a lie! All is an illusion!

Everything I do in this life is a lie and cannot last. All of my education, all of the money I have put aside, all of the money I have given to help the poor, all of the time I have spent teaching, is a lie. Everything I have done, everything I have accumulated in this life is cruelly negated by the finality of death!

Period. Exclamation point! Exclamation point!

But all is not an illusion. I have been taught to love. I have been taught to share love. I have learned that love is eternal; I have learned that Love is God. I have learned that I am love that I am a part of God and therefore eternal. This is not illusion; this is God’s Truth!