A Glimpse of the Other Side?

"Oh wow oh wow oh wow."

Somehow, when my last day comes, if I'm blessed enough to still be here but able to see the other side, I suspect that my last words will be the same. "Oh wow."

I don't know what he saw, but there's a sense of wonder inherent in that simple phrase, "Oh wow".

It makes me think of the Lord of the Rings, in the final pages, where Frodo and Gandalf are passing into the West, "...the grey-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."

But for Sam, Pippin and Merry, "...the evening deepened into darkness..."

Isn't that the same for those of us left behind? Tolkien had a deep sense of what lies before us all, that moment when we pass from human into spirit -- when we join the vast consciousness that we who are still flesh and blood call God.

I believe that the grey-curtain of death rolled back for Steve and he saw the Promised Land before him.

Links:
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/steve-jobs-final-words-shared-sister-eulogy-060321674.html

Steve Job's eulogy, delivered by his sister: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&sq=steve%20jobs