Beyond Forever
I had not given much thought to soul mates or destiny until I read “Beyond Forever” by Debra Dier. This story is about a woman named Julia Fairfield, who gets abducted from her time 1999 into 1818 by the ghost of Gavin McKinnon. Julia must somehow save Gavin from an accidental death he suffers in 1818. Gavin McKinnon is a ghost who has spent the better part of 200 years looking for something or someone. When he meets Julia he knows that this is the person who he has been waiting for.
This story deals a great deal in soul mates and destiny. Is there one person you are destined to fall in love with for all time? Does this love last even through death? Can love be reincarnated into two people during different time periods?
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” Madame De Stael (pg 338)I am not sure if I believe in reincarnation, but I do believe that we create what we want in life, or our destiny. Julia and Gavin fall in love during the period of 1818, while she is there trying to change Gavin’s fate. By falling in love with each other they change each others perceptions. At the beginning of the story neither Julia nor Gavin is trusting of others, or can think of being in a relationship. They each believe that they will once again be hurt and they could not bear being hurt again. As the story ends you see two very different characters. Julia and Gavin both have learned that each person we meet in life is different. Just because one has been hurt in a previous relationship is no reason to believe that this will happen again. In learning to trust they each begin new relationships in their respective time periods that alter the course of history for themselves and their families.
The main thought or theme throughout “Beyond Forever” is that love lasts forever, even if we do not find love during this life time we will eventually find it. Even if we must seek it from beyond the grave. This is what makes this book such an interesting read. It gets you thinking about how what we do now, in the present, effects your future-your destiny. This destiny can be changed, although it may take 200 years.
“Love’s very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the worked divine,
Which if not here, it builds beyond the grave.” Percy Bysshe Shelley (pg 294)
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