When my grandson was 4 1/2 he said something so extraordinary that I wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget. But I shouldn’t have been surprised. He’s been saying surprising things ever since he could talk.
On this day he was explaining the relative ages of people. He said people who are 4 and 5 are “young”; kids who are 6-12 are “older kids”; and 13-19 year olds are “teenagers”. “When you are 20,” he said, “you are a young adult. But Daddy is 38, and he is old.“ That was funny, but then he said, very matter-of-factly, that when people get old they die. And, “Someday Daddy will die, but not until he’s a lot older.” This didn’t seem to upset him. But he really caught my attention with the next line. He said, “When people die they become a blue hemisphere.”
A blue hemisphere? He went on, “But Daddy had a friend who died when he was not very old.” So I asked, “Did he become a blue hemisphere?” And here’s the extraordinary part. He said, very matter-of-factly, “No, not everyone does. But when Daddy dies, I hope he will.”
The Course teaches, “Each day, and every minute in each day, and every instant that each minute holds, you but relive that single instant when the time of terror was replaced by love. And so you die each day to live again, until you cross the gap between the past and present, which is not a gap at all.” (CE-T-26.V.11:4-5)
Do we become a blue hemisphere when we finally cross the gap? Who knows? Because in the next moment, just as matter-of-factly, he asked: “Did you know that Texas is one of the largest states in the United States?” Guess that puts things in perspective.