Hi, this is really just a test blog post but I hope it gives you 'something to think about'. It was previously posted a few years ago.  I have been writing off and on for so long but I recently published a couple of poetry books as well.  You can see my books by clicking the below link:

http://www.amazon.com/Connie-Jordan/e/B015HVBT74/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1


A while back I tried to answer the question that was put to me “Is Death Fate or Choice.”  My mind took me to different places as I contemplated this question and this is what I came up with.

Nothing is ever black or white there are always shades of grey.  The question “Is Death a Choice or Fate” ignited several thought patterns internally for me.  There is a physical death where your body dies and you are placed in a casket and delivered to your perpetual resting place in the ground.

This can be a choice on some levels.  You could commit suicide or your lifestyle can surely lead you to the physical death.  However, the physical death is an inevitable death.  Everyone is born and everyone dies – the choice comes into play only if you choose to take your own life by your own hands, suicide by police officer or a Dr Kevorkian death.

You could also speed the process of death by lifestyle, by food choices, by bad habits, such as drugs, liquor, gangs, which all increase your possibility of a shorter life span, or you can choose to wait on your time to die which can truthfully come at any time but will definitely come eventually.

On another level there is a spiritual death.  God has offered all of us the opportunity to have everlasting life, eternal life.  From the Bible, John 3:15 states, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”  John 6:54 states, “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”  Here he lets you know that even though you have eternal life with him you will die a physical death but will be raised up at the last days.  1 John 2:25 states, “And this is the promise that he hath promised us [even] eternal life.”

The spiritual death is a death of pure choice.  Romans 6:23 states, For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  You can live by God’s law and have eternal life or you can choose to live according to man’s influence and perish forever. There are rules and guidelines to follow that are listed in the Bible in order to achieve this type of existence, this eternal life or put another way, in order to avoid this type of death, spiritual death.  Here we have total freedom to decide if this is what we want; if this is the way we want to live our lives, if this is the reward we want.

Finally, there is the death of things not tangible within you.  The death of your spirit; the death of your soul; the death of your heart; the death of awareness to name a few, all leading to a person becoming the walking dead.  Some of these deaths may be caused by situations you have been in, by people who have touched you in a negative way.

In the end, these deaths are often by choice, as a means of protection you simply close down or close out feelings.  Fate is such a strong word it inspires a level of helplessness that I do not feel comfortable with.  Free-will makes one feel more in control so for me death is always, on most levels, a choice.

And that’s the way I see it!!!!