How can I paint for you the joys that are yours?

Since we must submit to the inevitable result of this law, and we will ultimately reach perfection, why make an effort on earth to do anything that will interfere with our fancy, if we will be eternally happy sometime anyway?

Why not be as happy as possible on earth in our own way?

In the infancy of life, which is your earth experience, each individual perceives within himself the instinct of his immortality.

Regardless of civilisation, or other outward circumstance, each is conscious of an aspiration for something better.

It is an infantile grasping for a ray of light, but it is an indication of another life. 

If on earth that individual follows this infallible guide, he grows into splendid maturity, and he puts into motion splendid waves of harmony, and when reaching this life, his eyes are opened, his intelligence perceives the reasons and the laws, which govern his development. 

With this clear vision, he perceives, also, the tremendous task before him of creating enough good influence to overcome the bad.

This is our judgment.

It is not a punishment but an accepted consequence of our past.

In the stage of life immediately following earth experience, there is a longer or shorter period of darkness and unconsciousness, but as soon as an individual is awakened, he perceives the new conditions surrounding him and faces his past and realises that his conscious life is in its infancy. 

He grasps little by little the facts from which there is no escape. 

He understands its logic, and the stronger he becomes, the more he realises the tremendous task before him.

This task is in absolute proportion to your earth-life. 

Every wave of discord must be met and overcome before reaching harmony and perfect happiness. 

Every step taken willingly and consciously leads to clearer vision and fuller consciousness of the glory and Love of God.

God’s glory and love are realities, and their dimmest perception brings more happiness than all earth could ever offer.

How can I paint for you the joys that are ours? 

How can I describe the exaltation, which possesses us when, after a task is faithfully accomplished, we are permitted a glimpse of what is before us?

In the clear, soft radiance of a perfect day, we rest amid surroundings quite indescribable to you because our senses here are so much greater,  and we enjoy happiness beyond the power of language to convey. 

It is like a state of ideal perfection as to atmosphere, perfume, beauty of aspect, and free, untrammelled intercourse with beings who permit us to partake as fully as we are capable of in the perfect knowledge for which we always longed. 

There are no more vague longings and inarticulate aspirations.

There is fulfillment. 

There is no regret, for we know that we are permitted to work out our own atonement―always sustained by the never-failing love of God. 

Each period of rest finds us further on―with capabilities enlarged―with vision broadened―with heart overflowing with gratitude and love for God who gave us intelligence unbounded in its possibilities, and untrammelled in its outlook.

Meslom's Messages from the Life Beyond