I've been doing a lot of thinking about life after death and about reincarnation lately. I tell you- I have found no answers.

Some of the things that are incomprehensible to me:

1) The concept of seeing someone again. What does that mean? That the mother who died when she was 30 and the babe was born and the son who is now 90 years old will meet up yonder and take up their family relationship again? That's absurd. So it must be that we mean that 'spirit' continues. And then it occurs to me that if it is significant that two spirits meet again, then it seems to imply that the current family relationship was short lived and cursory. Reincarnation may well fit into that scenario and the next connection may well be of next door neighbors.

2) If one accepts that people/spirits do 'wait' for their significant others to rejoin them on the other side, might it be that the baby that died when it was three days old and the child who died at 4 years and the dead 7-year-old second grader are all the same 'person'? Think about it- say a young man died at 29. Let's say that his best friend who was also 29 at the time of the young man's death wil live to be 80. She wants him to 'wait' for her on the other side. That means that he has time for a number of very young lives (let's postulate that they were born for the sake of other persons) and still be waiting for her.

Bill D, I would love to see your mind take on this kind of exercise! (For the record, I think Little Hawk's take on this subject is profound.)