1 Kings 19:12 (NIV)
After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in
the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
I read this today and just had to share it.
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course.
There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves
for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after
delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more
light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths.
Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is
impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies
nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life
after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and
maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord
anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is
life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of
life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and
oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we
will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in
Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded
by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would
not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only
logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in
silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and
you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.'
Are you listening to the Lord today?
Dear Lord, help us listen for Your voice. Help us not get
distracted in the things around us but instead focus on You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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