2 Timothy 4:6 Meaning For I Am Already Being Offered

To be ready for your departure is to have made peace with the falling away of form. The mind recoils from death because it senses the end of everything it has taken itself to be: the roles, the story, the accumulated sense of me. All of that does dissolve.

Yet the one who calmly says the time is at hand has found something death does not touch. When you know yourself as the awareness in which your life has been appearing, and not as the passing form, dying is no longer the end of you. You are ready to be offered because you have found what you truly are, and it is not the part that falls away.

The departure spoken of here is no ordinary move from one mood to another, no small trading of one state of mind for a better one. A man who has fought the good fight comes to the end of the entire dream of being human. He steps out of the whole age by grace, not by his own strength. That leaving is the final resurrection.

When the son appears within, the sleeper wakes, and he wakes as God the Father himself. The offering is the giving up of the mortal part so the immortal can stand free. To depart is to finish the play and walk off the stage entirely. What remains awake is the Father who was dreaming the man all along. The dream ends. The dreamer stays.