Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:2
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is
unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18
In the “tales of” Harry Potter, horcruxes become a
foundational thread. As it is told, when one murders another accompanied by a
curse, the piece of the murder’s soul is transferred into an inanimate object. The
object is chosen as being valuable to the murderer; ironically, more valuable
that a human life. This everyday object, while maintaining its original form and
function, now holds the secret of the soul. Only the original soul, now eternally
fused with an object of choice, knows of the union. By mere possession thrust
into it’s being, the object is now a horcrux. Each victim death becomes another
fusion between earthly and eternity. Therefore, the death of the object, becomes the death of a soul. Such an act, as it’s told, it is the darkest of all acts. Horcruxes are formed for purpose of soul immortality. Ultimate deception is it’s defense. in reality, since all earth will pass away, including the item, choosing earthen as immortality is the greatest deception.
Far less than the extreme of murder and soul fractures, is a
more common union of earthly and eternal. In reality, and by the
thousands, horcruxes of unholy unions abound. Yet, it doesn’t take murder to
form such a horcrux of union; it’s far simpler and more dangerous. We simply
choose an object to be our intimacy. Everyday objects that we hold…and take
hold of us (our hearts and minds; by idolatry, our souls). We attach ourselves so intimately with the inanimate, that loss of earthly things causes us to die a thousand deaths. Items
hold memories, not souls. When an object is lost or destroyed, the reminder is
gone but the memory lives on. Con-fusion of the two, keeps us trapped inside a doomed fate.
When we scatter our souls into idols with inanimate union of
relationship-as if they breathed from our very lungs-we place faith in the
temporal as if it is eternal. Thereby, we miss the extraordinary resurrected
life of a healed, though scarred, soul in the unseen. The concern is not sentimental remembering. The concern is not grieving. The concern is intimate union with the inanimate. Grieving has healing, even if
over a lifetime; obsession is an open wound that refuses closure. Grieving loss of an object is natural, understandable
and not to be dismissed. Please don’t misunderstand: there are things of
great value, especially emotionally. A wedding band; a father’s watch; a mother’s
bible; a child’s drawing. A billion other items that are irreplaceable and deeply
missed when gone. A theft, fire or accident cuts deep when such are lost. There
is no denial of painful grieving to be experienced with great sadness. The deeper,
unseen destruction is when the object inhabits our obsessions to the point
where we expect the eternal from the temporal.
Lord of the Rings. Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark. Walmart
at Christmastime. None of us are exempt, but each of us are of choice.
Parent/child relationships are destroyed over a phone. Marriages are
destroyed over holiday trinkets or a magazine images. Siblings are destroyed over estate wills. Friendships are destroyed
over video games. Soul unions murdered over an obsession, ornament or object. The
most common of horcrux: that which we value over human life. All because we
choose to fix our eyes on earthly over eternity. We choose to miss moments
present by fixating on memories past. We choose to stay stuck in the hospitals
with wounds rather than accept the freedom of healing. No, it’s not as simple
as a change of mind that heals all. However, we do have a choice in our
dwelling and with whom we dwell.
There will always be a lifetime of grieving and loss. The greatest
acceptance is to embrace death; then let death die rather than live on. What,
where, and who we obsess over, and dwell with, will either be our holy or our horcrux.
That which you possess or that which possess you.
