Transitions
Water can be an ice cube, it can melt into liquid, and heat into steam. Steam can cool, liquid forms, once it cools enough, ice. It is the natural way of things. Three distinct states of being and it never stops being water.
You take a piece of paper and light it on fire, the combustion releases the energy stored in the paper. The law of conservation of energy states that energy is never lost, it just changes from one state to another.
A caterpillar goes into a cocoon comes out a butterfly. Nature is full of examples of how things may change but the essence of what is remains unchanged.
That's why I think that the sober scientific minds of atheist are so laughable. I am amused by those who look down their noses across the pages of science books to dismiss the beliefs of the religious. The science makes very clear that death is a transition between one state of being and another.
Don't get me wrong, I'm equally amused by the religious. Those who regularly look down their self righteous noses across the pages of their ancient tomes at the atheist who refuse to believe whatever arbitrary thing they believe. I find it odd that they are so filled with the spirit or what have you, but still fear death so much and go to such great lengths to prolong the suffering of those dying by keeping them alive.
I know that energy cannot be destroyed or created, I know that a thing can exist in many different states and still be a thing. I believe that death is a transition between one state of being another.
Thus, though I will miss interacting with my father, I know he still exist in another form. Today we make arrangements to bury the cocoon he spent the last 67 years in. It will wear his best suit, it will have his pipe and a new pouch of tobacco. My ancestors were Irish, and though this world isn't as hard for me as it was for them in the past, I share their faith that wherever he is, it is definitely better than where he was.
Delwood Ray Cavenaugh
1941 - 2008
