Mover Mike

I am writing a follow-up to my post It's Now Clear to Me because I just read the column in the NY Post, THE SCHIAVO STAKES: WHAT THE FIGHT'S REALLY ABOUT by John Podhoretz. Podhoretz writes:

Those who have sided with her parents in seeking the reinsertion of her feeding tube have a view of life that is profoundly different from those who have sided with her husband's quest to have her die.

Those who want her to live tend to view life as a gift — a treasure beyond value that has been bestowed upon us and that we therefore have no right to squander. The giver of the gift cannot be seen by the human eye, and the essence of the gift cannot be seen either.

We usually call that essence the "soul." Our souls define us: They make us who we are in the deepest sense. And they transcend us as well: They are our connection to the divine, to all in the universe that is unseen and unknowable but is still there.

I know we are "meaning making machines", however I believe that our souls choose the parents and the kind of life it wants to experience. To end ones life artificially, by suicide for example, is against the souls wish for experience. In essence, it is against God's will. I believe one thing the soul wishes to experience is karma. If you murdered someone in one life, it would be karma to experience being murdered in another life, thus, experience the profound grief at not being able to fulfill the soul or God's plan. Think of the 1,000,000 souls that choose parents just in this country each year, only to be aborted. Imagine the grief of souls!