“Hello Zossima. How are you feeling?” A disembodied voice said
Disoriented at first I thought I just had woken up and Alyosha was there. As I realized that I was nowhere near where I thought I was. Heaven I was in heaven a place where I had imagined for so long that I had preached about. Life after death I was downright giddy.
“I am feeling wonderful Peter.” I replied to the voice assuming it was him from scripture.
“Do you not recognize my voice brother?” The voice said back to me.
I blinked once as my jaw dropped as low as it could go. Could it be. My brother Zossimo was here with me. I walked slowly towards him then started running. I enveloped him in a hug when I reached him. Of course he was this is heaven a place where all the dead come and live happily for the rest of time.
“Zossimo it has been too long. I have missed you so much. I have much to tell you since you have died.” I said, tears welling up in my eyes.
“Have you forgotten where you are brother? I have watched you for all the years I have been dead. I am glad that my preachings toward my death have made you become a person of good faith. You have made it so that my beliefs of my younger years have been replaced. You have made me proud.” Zossimo said with joy in his eyes.
“I am glad Zossimo. I have taken your beliefs to heart after my duel against a man over a woman. I had fallen into dark times but your beliefs had made me see the fault of my ways. I only hope that my beliefs were the ones that a God that is just and true will accept.”
“I believe it is time to see him then.”Zossimo said with a undertone of finality.
God, I am going to see God the being that has taught me to love all people no matter what. He has ingrained teachings in my soul for years and no...
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... so people are forced to conform to my religion and just create a new cycle.”
“That is what is amazing about what you can do for the world. You are the first person to ever be able to make one unified religion that no one is force to join and everyone joins freely once you teach your point.”
All of that on my shoulders. When you have this on your shoulders you get a bit nervous. If I do not succeed I will just end up here again making this same decision again. THere is no way to know if I succeed or not. Then a thought came to mind.
“How many times have I been here?” I queried
“4999” He replied wit humor in his eyes
“That decides it then doesn’t it. If I decided that before and failed then I must try again to make this perfect world.”
“Ok walk through that door for hopefully the last time and you shall be born again.”
“I just hope I made the right decision. Again.”
fellowship, he replies by saying, " And when we stand before God, and you are
felt at the alter or the hope of seeing a lost family member in the here after
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
reminds him, "had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said to each
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds”
“Okay, yeah. So, I'm kind of maybe sort of the god of the dead. I was experimenting with you expendable, worthless beings, and you have failed the test. Well, there was no winning it. Your time has come. You have become full of yourself. You think you are a god. No, you are not a god. I am a god. And you are a disgrace to your species of disgraces.”
"We were once like you, only our world wasn't like yours. You have no idea how close to death you came. A generation or two earlier, you might be here with us.
“I will bury him myself./If I die for doing that, good:/I will stay with him, brother;/and my crime will be devotion.”
Gasping in terror I awoke and shot to my feet. He was gone, but where, how long had I been here and ...
“Oh Lord, please look down and recognize us poor sinners...I'm sorry that I turned my back on you, Lord. Please
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those it will not break it kills. It kills the very good and gen...
...s I asked, so there is no need for you to go out again into another life. You can stay here with Me, with my name, one with my word.”
“Jesus. I will call myself Jesus and make a promise to man that I will never forsake them and will always speak on their behalf to help continue the future of mortals.”
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
“I am a thoroughly good person and I am going to be a big success in life. Everything that happens to me, good or bad, is simply a part of the process of achieving the great success and happiness that is inevitable for me.”