Short Story: Betty dies fully alive to herself, and to love

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Betty Davison was a speaker. She would give talks at her old people's home for the other ladies, as she had been a speaker too, in her previous life, before the nursing home environment. Here is one of her latest speeches, to an audience of ten old ladies, and five old men, who came along to hear her talking. "Good Morning, my fellow inmates, no, not inmates, that sounds like you are in a prison, no, I should rather say, my friends here with me in this home." "God waits for no-one, but we wait for him. We are all waiting here, in some ways for our eventual entry into God's kingdom." "Have we lived a good life, are we satisfied with our living?" "We have asked these questions of ourselves, and now, at this stage in our lives, we cannot change anything in our past, nor much in our future either." "We are in a way station, waiting for the next train to our next destination." As she talked, Betty swayed slightly from side to side. It was obvious that she was having trouble maintaining her balance. Just then, as she said, "Love keeps us alive to ourselves, to God, and to others," she smiled, and keeled over onto the floor. Betty had gone. She was now really on that new train going to Heaven. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, freeimages.com "Man always dies before he is fully born." Erich Fromm, ( 23/03/1900 to 18/03/1980) an American psychologist said this. Love is always already fully born in all parts of God's creation, but life is about moving from the non-born parts of you into this fully born part of you. Not many can become fully born in love in their lifetimes, so I think that Fromm's statement is mostly true of most, but not of all. It was certainly not true of Betty! Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, freeimages.com Betty spoke with love, as she was now fully born from that love.