We shall reap what we sow...

There's a saying in the Bible - you shall reap what you sow. I was musing on that this morning and started wondering... maybe that is more literal than we realize... We tend to think of it as, yeah, we'll reap what we sow in our lifetime. But what if we will reap what we sow beyond our lifetime... or into the next lifetime?

I think in particular of the environmental crisis... global climate change, tar sands, rising oceans, desertification, deforestation, etc. A long list of issues that we are sowing today. We are a short-sighted species though, so we don't really think of the long-term consequences. We are more concerned with political re-election and/or financial gain. Let's face it, most of us aren't willing to pay more for organic produce, even though it is better for the environment (less phosphate fertilizer and pesticides used.... less to end up in our rivers... less to end up in our oceans... less algal blooms in oceans... less dead zones in oceans). No, we are concerned with how to save money now... not with what the world might look like in 50 or 100 years.

But what if... what if... instead of the Christian view of the after life... we were to hold a different view? What if, instead of thinking that, well, we die and that's the end of it... we just go to heaven, put up our feet. What if, instead of that... it was something more along the lines of this... this life, this incarnation in bodily form is only one of many that we have had and will continue to have. What if, instead of death being the end of it all, death is just the start of another grand adventure? What if, when we die, we dip back into the oceanic pool of spiritual consciousness and then come back out again to have another shot at the game of life? Well then... we may very well reap in that life, what we have sown in this life. It might very well come back to bite us in the butt... Some food for thought...