Guiding Light Psychic Tarot Readings

TJ Higgs - Psychic Medium Tracy Higgs Distant learning. Alternative spiritual therapies KSC Crystals Psychic Workshops Bengalrose Healing Elizabeth Francis - Psychic Medium Lorrain Violet Moon Kim Barden Hypnotherapy BWRT Spiritual Energetics
Shropshire Wellbeing Festival
Date: 28-Sep-2024 10:30 AM

Visit Site
Address: Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH, SY2 6AH, United Kingdom
Monmouth MBS Show
Date: 23-Mar-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Bridges, Wonastow Road Monmouth , NP25 5AS, United Kingdom
Occult Science Study Group @ Rosefolk
Date: 28-Mar-2024 7:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Online Virtual Event, , United Kingdom
Book launch for "Human Being" book
Date: 05-Apr-2024 7:30 PM

Visit Site
Address: The Balmoral Centre, Salisbury Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 7AU, SS0 7AU, United Kingdom
Purple Feather Events MBS Fair Lawford
Date: 06-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Venture Centre Bromley rd. Lawford Manningtree Essex, CO11 2JE, United Kingdom
Mansfield Mind Body Spirit Show
Date: 06-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: John Fretwell Complex Sookholme rd Mansfield NG19 8LL, NG19 8LL, United Kingdom
Mansfield Mind Body Spirit Show
Date: 07-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: John Fretwell Complex Sookholme rd Mansfield Notts NG19 8LL, NG19 8LL, United Kingdom
QUANTUM HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING (Past Life, Between Lives, Future Lives, Spirit Release, Healing)
Date: 12-Apr-2024 1:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Online Virtual Event, , United Kingdom
The Big Purple Wellness Weekend
Date: 11-May-2024 11:00 AM

Address: Merrist Wood College Holly Lane Worplesdon, GU3 3PE, United Kingdom
New Lemuria Calling with Hope, Grace & Healing
Date: 18-May-2024 2:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: The Henge Shop, High Street, Avebury, Marlborough, UK, SN8 1RF, United Kingdom
Dreaming With Plants
Date: 13-Jun-2024 3:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Whetstone Cottage, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6AE, United Kingdom
The Scottish Spiritualist Seminar 2024
Date: 21-Jun-2024 1:45 PM

Address: Stirling Court Hotel, Stirling University, Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
Learn Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) in Bath Somerset
Date: 29-Jun-2024 9:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Well Bath, Woolley Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, England UK, BA1 8BA, United Kingdom
Mind Body and Spirit Well Being Charity Day
Date: 29-Jun-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Stock Village Hall(opposite Greenwood’s Spa) Common Road Ingatestone CM4 9NF , CM4 9NF, United Kingdom
MIND BODY SOUL EVENT
Date: 28-Jul-2024 10:30 AM

Visit Site
Address: The Lismoyne Hotel 45 Church Road Fleet Hants , GU51 4NE, United Kingdom
LIVING THE LAW OF ATTRACTION RETREAT BALI
Date: 29-Sep-2024 5:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Narasoma Retreat Centre, Jalan Monkey Forest, Gang Beji No35, Ubud 80571, Bali, Indonesia, Ubud 80571, Indonesia
RESTORE, ENERGISE & CREATE RETREAT WITH THE LAW OF ATTRACTION AND MEDITATION, SNOWDONIA, UK
Date: 07-Feb-2025 4:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Trigonos, Plas Baladeulyn, Nantlle, Caernarfon, Wales, LL54 6BW, LL54 6BW, United Kingdom

International Version
Select County

Psychic Workshops IPHM Side - Therapists Accrediation Spiritual Events UK - Psychics For Hire Theta Healing Academy Psychic Paula VgoriPsychic Paula Vgori SMALL 12 MBS Web Design - Mind Body Soul Gathering of Minds Peaceful LivingLuna Chakra and Aura Certified Course Pauline Clairvoyant Medium Book this spot (SM29)






[ View My Events ]
  +Add Event +Add Article +Add Classified +Add To Directory
Search
EnjoyHolistic.com - Create your own dedicated holistic and spiritual page listing.

The Sweet Bye and Bye.

By:Ada Mckay
Date: Tue,27 Oct 2020
Submitter:Ada Mckay
Views:1001

View Related

The Sweet Bye and Bye.

My Mother’s favourite gospel hymn was called “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” and it’s chorus was “we shall meet on that beautiful shore.” {lots of recordings on the internet if you don’t know it!}. Whenever she sent someone a bereavement card she would mention the chorus of this hymn and she was often thanked for the comfort the words gave.

My mother was a Spiritualist all her adult life and she never doubted the existence of the next world and reunions with family already there. I think that many people, Spiritualists or not, know instinctively that death is not the end but we should all remember that it is only the Spiritualist Church which can provide proof of a life hereafter.

This belief in an afterlife has come down through the ages. The Pyramids of Egypt – those tombs of their rulers – were filled with objects to help the deceased in their future existence. They also believed that the only way to have an afterlife was to be mummified and put in a sarcophagus (an Egyptian coffin) which was covered with complex symbols and signs.

The ancient Greeks believed that people had a soul and, like the Egyptians, they believed in life after death. They believed that at death you had to cross the River Styx which was the river of death. The river had a ferry to take you across and the ferryman’s name was Charon. Of course Charon had to be paid for his services so relatives would place a coin in the mouth of the deceased to pay this toll as they believed that someone, who could not pay the fee, would never be able to cross the river and so reach life after death. Today archaeologists have found that even the coffins of humble people they have excavated contain a coin to pay the boatman to ferry them across the river.

Even today many people think of death as crossing a river or a sea. One of the last poems that Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote was called “Crossing the Bar.” In it he refers to his departure from life into death. He speaks of death as going out to sea. The “Bar” is the last piece of land before you reach the sea and he asks that there be “no moaning at the bar” when he is put to sea (that is don’t grieve for me.) I particularly like his last two lines :-
“I hope to see my Pilot (God) face to face when I have crossed the bar.”

A Baptist minister called Robert Lowry wondered why there were so many hymns about the river of death and he thought we should start thinking about crossing the river of life. He determined to write a more cheery hymn and he gave us that well known hymn called “Shall we gather at the river which flows by the throne of God.”

Our Victorian ancestors took a very gloomy view of death and this all started with Queen Victoria who could not reconcile herself to the death of Prince Albert. She started a display of mourning that was very macabre and morose. Widows wore black for 2 years (widows weeds) after a death, eventually moving to grey. Some, and especially the Queen, never wore colour again. Jet jewellery was the only one worn and then there were brooches and rings made from the hair of the deceased. In houses, the mirrors were covered, clocks were stopped at the moment of death, curtains were drawn and a black beribboned wreath was placed on the door. There was even black bordered stationery and black-edged handkerchiefs.

Well, these days we don’t have these morbid customs and in fact when you attend a funeral today we are told that we are there “to celebrate the life of…” which I think is a fine thing. The Salvation Army refers to death as “Promoted to Glory.” All Spiritualists know that death is not an end but a new beginning – new life freed from an aging body with all its related health problems. Silver Birch refers to it as “freeing the imprisoned bird from the cage.” A life of new opportunities, a time to fulfil unattained ambitions. Remember the words of Sydney Carton in Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities.” “It is a far, far better place I go to than I have ever been before.” I have recently become aware of a lovely Prose Poem about death and the afterlife which is often used at funerals. In it death is compared to boarding a ship and the mourners watching it sailing away say “There she goes!” However as it approaches it’s destination on another shore there are others watching for it’s arrival and a glad shout goes up “Here she comes!” What a lovely description of a soul being met by family and friends already there. I often think of death as emigrating over the sea to a new country in which case the chorus of my mother’s favourite hymn is very appropriate.
“In the sweet bye and bye we shall meet on that beautiful shore.”

I am offering a free copy of my book “Why I am a Spiritualist” to anyone interested.

Please contact me by email [email protected]
Like This? (Click Me)
 Be the first person to like this
 Known Humans have read this.
Post a Comment   View Comments(0)
Did you enjoy this article? why not let us know.






Share Page with Friends EmailBookmark and Share
Contact Me Contact Me
Request Delete/Amendment Request Amendment
Digg this article!
Delicious! Add this article to Del.icio.us!
Discuss Article on TheSpiritGuidesNetwork.co.uk Discuss Article on TheSpiritGuidesNetwork.co.uk

Post Article:
Submit Your Own Article

Leave a Comment

 

  
   
 


  


Enter the numbers shown above:

Comments

Copyright 2006-2013 TheSpiritGuides.co.uk
Tel: 07967 595893
A Mind Body Soul Directory and Spiritual Knowledge Site. Dedicated to Brenda Smith and all spiritual seekers out there.
0