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SEARCHING
FOR MEANING
by Betty J. Eadie
I was always looking for the missing
pieces in my life, not knowing what it was that was missing...
A great awakening has begun. People around the
world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They
are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always
been—beings with eternal pasts and glorious futures. In my near
death experience I was told the Awakening would happen soon, and I
am deeply grateful that Embraced By The Light and The Awakening
Heart have played a part in it. Many readers have written suggesting
that this was my mission in life—to help create this Awakening
through my books and lectures. I can now accept this as part of my
mission, but I know that my entire mission is not complete; Jesus
promised me that I would be taken home as soon as it was done. As
long as there is life, God wants us to do more.
 Our individual missions
are important, whether we are to reach out to millions or, like the
drunken man I saw in my experience, to reach only one. God may make
our missions known to us, or he may not. Regardless, they are still
our works to be done—works we helped plan and agreed to perform
before we came here.
If we are here to love fully, to
expand and to magnify our lives, what is the purpose? How will these
things help or hinder us on the other side?
Were we not content to stay in
heaven with God and be near him? Why would we choose to be here
when we could be safe and happy in heaven with God and all our friends?
Searching for meaning in this life is often painful, especially when
experiencing a tragedy or crisis. I am often asked why, if we already
had the answers in our prior existence, do we have to come to earth
to search for them? The following letter provides a few answers to
these universal questions.
I first read your book about a
year ago, and I've referred to it frequently ever since. It has
meant so much to me and my family. I am profoundly grateful to you
and others who have been willing to be open and generous in sharing
messages of comfort and hope from the "other side."
So
many things in your book touch me deeply because of the specific
trials and heartaches I have had. The things you were taught in
the spirit world about the meaning and purposes of this school we
call mortality have reinforced beliefs I already held. They opened
the way for me to understand much more deeply how we exercised our
free agency in designing our individual mortal courses of study.
(I sometimes say, "Why didn't I just sign up for French?!") This
fuller understanding is very sustaining as I struggle to meet my
life's challenges. It helps me to be more truly patient and to appreciate
the soul's progress—which is often unrelated to merely worldly
or easily visible change and accomplishment.
I
also feel less guarded about loving where there is risk of much
pain. I remember you saying in a television interview that the rose
you communed with in the heavenly garden grew when you loved it.
You related that principle to each of us. The truth the heart knows—so
much more readily than the mind!—is exquisitely simple, isn't
it? And so beautiful! We only fear to trust that truth because we
wish for pain-free lives. But in fact pain is a teacher without
compare, when we will accept its lessons. I'm not suggesting we
seek pain—heaven forbid! But if we suffer because we love,
then the purpose is worth the sacrifice. Christ is our Great Example
in this, isn't he?—as he is in all things good.
I
can scarcely think about your loving reunion with our Savior, and
your feelings of being home at last, without being filled with longing
and homesickness myself. But your experience helps me feel confident
of his perfect love. Your book also helps me know that I'm still
here—in a place that isn't my home—because I have not
yet completed my mortal mission, and I would want to go home without
completing it.
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