Some glad morning…
By nutcase101. Filed in Future, Random Thoughts, The unknown |
Some glad morning when this life is o’er,
I’ll fly away;
To a home on God’s celestial shore,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away).
I’ll fly away, Oh Glory
I’ll fly away; (in the morning)
When I die, Hallelujah, by and by,
I’ll fly away (I’ll fly away).
(Fair warning: This post deals with spirituality and is part one of two.)
This old church hymn haunts a lot of memories of my childhood, teenage years and adulthood. In each phase the lyrics evoked different emotions in my soul.
As a child, it was a promise of what was to come if I followed the hallowed rules that my parents set for me because in my eyes, they were my deity on Earth that I was to obey so that the real God would allow me to cross through the pearly gates when I was to no longer roam in this world.
As a teenager, it was what I clung to when others my age were experimenting and walking, running away from the harsh bound bible that was thrown at them when they did something wrong. I knew that if I kept up my walk of salvation that waiting until marriage, no drinking, getting good grades would be an honor to my God because I decided to walk with him and not ‘in this world’, my glory would be obtained.
And, as an adult, I realized that my clinging to what others wanted me to hold on to wouldn’t grant me my freedom in heaven but my allowing myself to be free to know myself in this world, I’d fly to learn who I am and what I really believe God is to me. And that was my glad morning.
I freely admit, to the dismay of my family, that I don’t go to church on a regular basis. Churches were made with the hands of man and my relationship with God was to be one between him and I, not between me, him and the intermediaries that believe that they are holier than me. Those that have proven, and again very recently, that the acts that they commit on behalf of their relationship with God can be done without regards for others, even if the righteous destroy the lives of good people for their benefit to worship.
One thing I do know is that there are good, spiritual people in this world. And, as I’ve stated before, each person’s relationship with a higher deity, or lack there of, is their own. For me, I believe that there is a God, who is – just is. But I will not accept the judgment of others and my faith because until that morning, I fly away, it is mine and mine alone.
