This poem speaks to the human condition, although we do not think of it in this way. We think of birth only as when we enter this world. We learn and grow and live our days adding all the things that people add in life…families, careers, friends, possessions. We feel love and sorrow, happiness and disappointment, excitement and boredom, fulfillment and loneliness as we move through childhood, becoming adults and on into old age. We gain reputations that are good, but sometimes we fall, too.
We are on a journey that will not end here. We live surrounded by the love of God just as an unborn baby grows enclosed in the womb of its mother protected in her womb and by her love. In this way, after our first birth, we enter another womb where we develop all that we need to survive. I submit that this womb where we live is the womb of God, and He is our parent surrounding us with His protection as we continue to grow. It is in this womb where we prepare for our real birth. Ironically, we call that birth death. What it really is is a passage from death into LIFE.
It is not an easy passage for people, because we do not look at it in this way. We fear the unknown. We don’t want to leave what we see as our life or the people we love. If only we could change our paradigm it would be easier to welcome death as our birth into eternal life where one day we will all be together once again.
Thoughts on Life in the Womb of God
Before Entering Eternity
Before Entering Eternity
Did you ever think
We live our lives in a womb
Waiting to be born.
Nine months we do float
In blissful comfort we grow
Waiting to be born.
Suddenly it comes
The day that we enter in
No longer waiting.
We descend to life
Starting the learning process
Again we will wait.
Wait to walk and talk
Learn ABCs and much more
Waiting now for life.
We start to notice
Many wonders of the world
As we wait for life.
Did you ever think
The world is another womb
Where we wait for life.
Earthly womb of God
Surrounded by His great love
As we wait for life.
In His earthly womb
We learn and grow and proceed
Towards our life to be.
Getting what we need
From the womb in which we live
He leads us to life.
We each move onward
Nourishment and learning grows
From His womb He gives.
We all build our lives
Family, work, retirement
Now close to our birth.
A spouse to share with
Kids who come to us and grow
Sharing the same womb.
Now new generations
Grandchildren to follow us
Onward into life.
The womb provides us
A place to show worthiness
So we all prepare.
Summer follows spring
Autumn with all its colors
Getting closer now.
We are slowing down
Feeling the time is coming
When waiting will be done.
Maybe it’s illness
That challenges youthful strength
We can see it now.
We just slip a bit
Things no longer seem to flow
Almost time to go.
Then one day we leave
The womb we’ve been living in
Birthed to eternity.
And waiting at the door
He welcomes us to our home
Waiting no more.
The final birth has come
Out of His womb we will go
Birthed, and now gone home.
(c)Corinne Mustafa
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