God

Everything is a test, and everything is suffering, but we have to squeeze through it somehow. Personally, i try to do it by being invisible. one problem most of us have is that we don't know what we are made of, which means we don't know how to connect the parts. one way to feel full is to feel put together, but we must realize that we contain so much more than we have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or felt. our bodies have become more and more like man made appendages that our souls use in passing on earth until we are educated or enlightened enough to really conceive the idea that our souls are everything we are. they are all of us even though they're intangible. we have to learn to strive to build the biggest soul, instead of the biggest house... we must want the best heart, instead of the best car. it has to be important to us to build WHATS GOING TO LAST. it's something you should be highly and persistently aware of. I believe God already knows who's going to heaven, but he doesn't take those people until he knows they have matured enough as a soul, to relinquish the need for a physical body. when you are so in touch with what you've built inside, that you consider material things to be petty waiting room entertainment, then you are ready to be your soul without the brace of a body.
We are so much better than our bodies. we are never ending beings put here on earth because it's one of the stages of our soul's journey. we are given the chance, in this stage of our travel, to prove to our immortal selves, that we can look inside and not only become aware of the fact that we are more soul than anything else, but also that we can try to understand and become enough like our souls to overcome the mental limits we have become accustomed to in our physical existence. the less materialistic you become, the more you are probably becoming aware of your soul, and when you see and feel through the eyes of a soul, you see further, you hear things differently, your intuition is stronger than ever before, and servicing your bodies pleasures becomes less important. our souls have always known more than us, and we should be more worried about growing into them, than growing into our bodies.

Once our soul knows that is is strong enough to mean more to us than our human bodies, then I believe we are released from this place and taken to another, whether it be heaven, or just another planet, which might be another stage our souls have to conquer before being worthy of Heaven. in fact, every planet might be another step we must take to get closer to God, and if so, i bet we take on a different form on each one of them, which means we would also have a whole different set of senses. On earth we are limited to 5 senses, so i assume the only reason we haven't discovered life on other planets is because life on those planets is perceived from a completely different set of senses. whatever life that may be there, might be struggling just as much as we are to be in touch with their souls, but having different senses would mean they have to overcome different obstacles than a body like ours does. we have to learn to see past our skins and our 5 senses to understand what we were really meant to be, but the life on another planet may have to get past 6 or 7 or 20, or hundreds of senses which would make them even more reliant or dependent on their bodies, or whatever physical form they take, because it could be even more difficult to get past your perception of your physical self if you used your body in so many ways. On the contrary, that theory may also become it's opposite, in which case a life form with less number of senses may be the type that struggles the most to see through and beyond it's physicality's, and into the soul... because maybe we need the physical understanding of things first to be educated enough to learn about our souls.

I'm just trying to throw out the possibility that maybe there is life on other planets, but on each of those planets the life forms have a different number of senses, whether it's less or more than us, and on every planet we all have the same goal, which should be the goal of every living thing in the universe... to become one with our higher selves, our invincible selves, our souls.
it may be that we only have to go through life on one of the planets, but if God's plan was for us to experience them all, than that might be what reincarnation is about. we die and are reborn on another planet, anther stage in our soul's journey to itself, and one step closer to being rid of everything and anything that hinders us from understanding the presence of our souls clearly.
A friend once told me that the only reason humans cannot fathom the concept of God, especially a god who has no beginning or end, is because God, the everything of everywhere, and the almighty, has the use and power over an INFINITE NUMBER OF SENSES! I was in love with that explanation when i first heard it because i thought it might help atheists, but only now do i really understand it. i think one gift God gives us in heaven is the better understanding of how he can have no beginning or end because right now as humans we can't truly perceive not having an end to ourselves because we are still in a state of awe and vulnerability at the fact that our bodies are going to die. touch is very powerful, and it distracts the mind from things, even when our minds know better. When humans think about our physical death, we think that every part of us is going to have to start something over again, but our souls don't forget all of our experiences just because our body dies. it simply continues in it's travel from one planet to another or to heaven when it has completed it's last stage of life... and after we are in that place where no one ever dies again, we can begin to learn about our soul's destiny without having the worry of death in the way, and the distractions of the flesh clouding our education. i believe that in Heaven we get to learn at the feet of God, and there could be no greater bliss.
All of this gives me reason to believe what I've said in many of my diary entries about how Hell must only be the punishment of being reincarnated back onto earth again, or onto another planet on which it's even harder to learn how to get in touch with your soul, because of an abundance of, or lack of, senses. I think God lets us keep on and on going to one planet after another until we grow in to our soul's mentality, so we can reach heaven eventually.
On a lighter note... I really don't think that there's some specific thing we are sent to the planet Earth to do. I believe in a simpler ideal. We already know for sure, that if God has made us at all, we are here because we must be, and we are a definite part of the story of the universe. I don't believe that it is our duty to define how it is that we, as individuals, will impact this world. Every day we underestimate our soul's sole impact, whether in idle comments to friends who are more effected by our words than we think, or if it's just a path we take one day that cuts off someone else's and saves their life from a wreck they would have been involved in had we not slowed their journey by those few moments. No matter how much of a bad impact we have on the world around us, the good impact that we have is obviously still needed enough for God to have let us experience existence. we are here because God wants us to be. How could you know a thing like that and not feel worthy?
Of course... If you don't believe in God, I really wouldn't know what to tell you about the meaning of life. Or maybe you're one that believes in God, but not in humans? Can you imagine a God, as your grandfather, telling the story of how he once built a place called earth? He'd just be sitting there in his rocker, telling his grandchildren about us for the mere morals of our lives, but his thoughts are enough to make us materialize... Could we be one afternoon's fabrication of the most fantastic mind of all, for the entertainment of a child?