Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
I've been having the most interesting and wonderful exchange with someone who was once a very important part of my life quite nearly 10 years back. When we met, he would have nothing to do with God or with any divinity at all. He was a 'Scientist', and a man of 'Reason'. He was also 22 and the centre of his own universe, but I dug him still.
I quite clearly recall one conversation where he was expressing his 'interest' at a recent turn of ideas re one of his immediate family members who had come to believe in Angels. Can you believe it, he asked me. Of course I can, because they're real, I responded as I strummed uselessly and painfully on a guitar in the middle of Oliver's Pub. My Angels look a little like pretty little faeries, only in long flowing white robes and golden belts, but no harps. I think they laugh quite often and fly around my head to whisper in my ear. Always, they're guarding me, I believe.
He had looked at me as though I were a complete fool, but I didn't mind. I continued to pluck away at the guitar and offered You have Angels too, you should learn to be nice to them, before he LOL-ed and I decided I think the drums are more suited to my type of personality, anyway.
So it was with much surprise and even more amazement that I read the following he sent me in a message: "I'm no longer an atheist nor can I say I'm religious. I think of the religions as different languages to express the same source of divinity. I didn't grow up speaking any language and like kids who aren't spoken to as infants, I will probably never be fluent in any given language. But although I'm mute, I'm not blind. Make sense? Best metaphor I can muster on three neurons."
And a metaphor, I think, worth posting because of it's complete beauty.
God. I love watching the evolution of people. It's a beautiful thing. (And now, he is in fact a real Doctor who works with the human brain.)
I quite clearly recall one conversation where he was expressing his 'interest' at a recent turn of ideas re one of his immediate family members who had come to believe in Angels. Can you believe it, he asked me. Of course I can, because they're real, I responded as I strummed uselessly and painfully on a guitar in the middle of Oliver's Pub. My Angels look a little like pretty little faeries, only in long flowing white robes and golden belts, but no harps. I think they laugh quite often and fly around my head to whisper in my ear. Always, they're guarding me, I believe.
He had looked at me as though I were a complete fool, but I didn't mind. I continued to pluck away at the guitar and offered You have Angels too, you should learn to be nice to them, before he LOL-ed and I decided I think the drums are more suited to my type of personality, anyway.
So it was with much surprise and even more amazement that I read the following he sent me in a message: "I'm no longer an atheist nor can I say I'm religious. I think of the religions as different languages to express the same source of divinity. I didn't grow up speaking any language and like kids who aren't spoken to as infants, I will probably never be fluent in any given language. But although I'm mute, I'm not blind. Make sense? Best metaphor I can muster on three neurons."
And a metaphor, I think, worth posting because of it's complete beauty.
God. I love watching the evolution of people. It's a beautiful thing. (And now, he is in fact a real Doctor who works with the human brain.)
Labels: Faith, Friendship
posted by just a girl at 4:07 PM
3 Comments:
Once more, a heart-warming little story. Thank you for sharing, Maha.
Colleen
This is a great story and the quote is well worth the posting. You're right, it's amazing to see people evolve!
thank you for sharing.
This is just so great!
Have you heard of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion? I read it because it's everywhere and the guy is so arrogant, it's amazing. But if you don't believe that there is something greater than you and beyond your comprehension it only makes sense that you have that kind of arrogance, I think. Anyway, he basically calls 95% of the world's population irrational for their beliefs. It was funny he was on such a rampage. I thought of you because he made a few remarks about Islam that were so off base they made me cringe. But he's on a mission, my favorite is his attempt to make raising children in a religious household a form of child abuse. Idiot.
love,
maria
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