YouTube: Exploring the Mystery of Spiritual Rebirth
Using a term like rebirth, we may be tempted to think of reincarnation. Reincarnation is the same soul being born into a new body. Rebirth is the same soul awakening to a deeper experience within the same body. We see Spring rebirth in a tree that went dormant for the winter. It’s the same tree with new life.
While I believe reincarnation has a place, the thing we are most interested in is spiritual rebirth. Like the tree, we want to learn how to experience a current situation in a new way. This, I think, was the essence of Jesus’ ministry. He was trying to help people cope with the challenges of daily living by teaching them to experience them from a higher perspective.
We’ve all been in situations that we did not like because we felt negative, like they would never end. Then, the time came when we could see light at the end of the tunnel. At that moment, the challenge did not seem so big, and we may have even wondered why we made such a mountain of it.
The human experience itself can sometimes feel like an insurmountable burden. But what if we suddenly realized our time here is really just a flash in the pan? What if we knew this was but one of our many incarnations? This flash of insight is a kind of spiritual rebirth. It is a glimpse into a larger context that puts our present experience in a healthier place. Such insight is empowering, a great source for a second wind.
Spiritual rebirth is not about changing the world; it’s about changing the way we experience the world. Affirming our true, limitless spiritual nature lifts our vision to broader vistas. Just as the countless challenges we have encountered in the past have faded from our memory, so that challenge that plagues us today will be as nothing tomorrow. We do not ignore that which is ours to do, but we do it from the strength of knowing this too shall pass. Spiritual rebirth occurs the moment we open our eyes to the truth of who and what we are as spiritual beings.