I am embraced in the Divine Light of the Creator and forever dwell in Paradise."
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Meditation: the Death of George 12/2005
Good Olde George
BELIEF + EVOLUTION + REALITY
As I leaned against the wall, beneath the mounted TV set witnessing the doctors and nurses determined to restore his vital signs. The situation was hopeless.Nevertheless the activity went on and on. Electric shocks, injections, manual compression of the chest, the monitor’s sounds penetrating the corridors of the critical care unit, the “swish-swoosh” of compressed air entering the face mask- the room filling with staff, nurses, and doctors- and the steady cadence of the emergency care doctor whispering orders to Pam, “one more time!” until the words came, “Stop!”.
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All had been done that could have been done to restore the life of George, a 75 year old man who had came into the hospital that morning feeling “weak”.
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And, now his heart had stopped and George was dead.
Earlier, I was at the side of George during his x-rays, and I had walked by the side of his gurney returning to room 506 back as he was he placed in the bed.
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His nurse Pam looked at me and said in a low voice,
“He needs you more than he needs us.”
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I leaned over the bed placing my left hand on George’s forehead and said,
“ George, everything is fine, I am your pastor and I am saying your prayers for you- do not be afraid- Christ* is with you.”
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As my hand lifted, the life data monitor started to “whine” and George became the sole interest of the 25 people of the emergency team.
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The next 30 minutes the scene was “intense energy”.
Love in each face-was in full bloom.
Eddie, his friend, had brought George to the hospital emergency room, sensing the “weakness” was serious and wanted George to have someone at his bedside.
Eddie did not want George to be “alone”.
robert r. lackney chaplain
Meditation: Death and Life, 2005
George’s death was the 14th time this year I had been praying with an individual and they had died. George’s death left a deep impression on me including those who cared for him
As I was watching George’s circumstances I began to appreciate all the skill and knowledge that the nurses and doctors brought to his bedside. Science was in “in full bloom” for those 30 minutes.
The reality of Evolutionary processes: the selection of George’s life, his death. His son and his daughter’s lives continue.This is “Scientific Truth”: scientific evidence of the “Evolution of Man” through molecular biological genetic processes of heredity
The minister’s faith experience is based in “Revealed Truth”.
This places me direct conflict with the “Science of Evolution”, where God does not exist. Do I accept the “evidence”, inviting doubt to the mind?
A single lifetime of study* cannot “fully integrate” the vastness of creation’s “sweep” in time.
We cannot definitely prove that there is or is not a God, a “Supernatural Force” behind “it all”. Nor is it possible comprehending “life” through speculation.
I proceed with “life” in a spirit of “unreserved trust”. I imagine that my life is part of a pattern-the “flickering” lights on a Christmas tree.
Each light represents “one lifetime”.
One “lifetime of a solar system, a planet, a sun, a star, a bird, a tree, a thought, or the lifetime of one single soul.
Lives come and go in the Eons. Life emerges then disappears.
robert r. lackney, chaplain
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