What? No Judgment Day?

Evaluation may be the devil’s most devious suggestion.  Lol.  No, I don’t intrinsically believe in “the devil.”  But, I do believe inside of me there ways I can lean that either take me closer to myself or take me farther away.  Evaluation takes me further away.

In order to evaluate something or someone, I must step outside of the experience I am living in this moment.  It is like when we evaluate a piece of art, we must step far enough back to see it well.

Ah, see here, this is the spiral out of life.  For if I evaluate, I am no longer part of the piece of art, I am no longer in the moment, I am in my mind.

Yes, yes, life may require some evaluation.  Maybe.  But, life can not be lived from a distant hill looking down at it.

Only from within the breath of the present moment can I connect with the greater me, the greater us.  Only while connected with humanity, can I know myself.   This asks that I release any evaluation of myself.  I am not better nor worse than another.  I merely am.  They merely are.  In this space, I can begin to understand that the game of life was never evaluative, it was experiential.

And the game, while collective at one level, was essentially autonomous at the personal level. In other words, if life was a video game, I am running my own avatar. I addition, when the game is done, there is no high score flashed on the screen.  When the game is done, there is only me and my experience.

There never was a judge.  There never was nor will be a Judgment Day.  There is no evaluation after death, nor a test to enter heaven.  God never sat on a podium with a gavel.  If God is anywhere specific in the video game metaphor (other than everywhere), God would be inside us enjoying the ride.

Reflection

If you could only bring once experience from this life with you in your memory when you die, what would it be?