This is a story I made while sitting on my couch thinking of if I made the right decisions in my life. I have continued to pray to God and ask him for reassurance of my life changing choices and I suddenly got the urge to grab my computer and start typing letters onto a word document and this is what came to be......
The girl who can’t is sitting on a couch. She sits there and
thinks that life really doesn’t have much to offer. Every now and then life
becomes happy but it always dies. As the girl is sitting alone she begins to
feel that someone is near. She smiles as she looks up but nobody is there. She
puts her head down with disappointment and then she hears a voice say, “Dear
child what has gotten into you?” She looks up to once again to see nothing but
this time she replies “wh- who’s there?” The voice replies “why it’s me don’t
you remember? I’m the one who showed you all the happiness there is to
experience.” The girl sat there puzzled as she ran familiar faces through her
thoughts but nobody stood out to her. She continued to think and then finally
the voice said aloud “tell me why you no longer see the good even though I am
good and I am in front of your face?” She didn’t know what to say so she
lowered her head with disappointment once again. “My you do have it really bad”
the voice said, “come child, please listen to this story and then maybe you’ll
understand what true happiness is in life.” The girl raised her head and then
felt a vibration coming from underneath her couch; the walls began to shake as
she closed her eyes and covered her ears hoping for it to go away.
The noise was gone so the girl relaxed and opened her eyes
to an image she had never thought she had seen before. Green grass as tall as
four feet was swaying from the nice cool breeze that danced across her skin.
Deer came up to her as though she were their mother. They grazed her hands to
allow her to brush them with her fingers. She could feel the warmth of the sun
glaring down upon her as she raised her arms and grasped the delight from its
rays. She looked up to see brilliantly blue skies that had scattered white
clouds that soared high above her. Then she saw a bird come flying by. As she
turned she saw the only tree that happened to be in this pasture of grace. She
looked at the tree with astonishment as it was very tall. The tree had a dark
brown trunk that was nearly a quarter of a mile wide. All up and down the tree’s bark
there were engravings that she couldn’t read. The tops of the tree were as full
as could be with beautiful green leaves that were the same color as the girl’s
eyes. The wind picked the leaves up and put them back down on their housing
branches and they made the most calming rustling sound that wonderful leaves
make.
The girl walked up to the magnificent tree so she could see
what was on the trunk. As she approached the tree she started to make out that
there were carved images on the bark. She grazed her hand on the drawings and
then began to notice a pattern. At the bottom of the tree there were pictures
of an infant with their parents holding them. As the pictures began to crawl up
the tree’s trunk the infant grew and grew until they reached adulthood and then
the pictures stopped.
“Odd” the girl thought, “Who would start something so great
and not finish their product that was in the making?”
“Doesn’t it look amazing?” the voice said behind her.
Startled, the girl turned with a whip to see who it was and stood there was a
man whom she had not remembered seeing before.
“Who are you and why did you
bring me here” the girl asked.
“I am peace and you’ve been here before” said
the man.
“I’ve been here before?” she asked, “Then why don’t I
remember this wonderful place?”
“You don’t remember this place because you were so young”,
replied the man.
“Please help me understand what’s going on”, said the girl.
“Your parents made many prayers before you were conceived.
They participated in many medical treatments just so they could conceive you.
Meanwhile, you were here the entire time enjoying your time with God as he
learned more about you and you about him. You both were extremely close as you
used to go play hide and go seek in the pasture and then climb up the tree
together to collect secret flowers that were hidden on the branches. Then one
day God told you to come sit on his lap, that there was something that he
needed to tell you. He told you that someone had been praying long and hard for
you to come into their lives down on Earth and he agreed that it was time that
you got to meet them. You didn’t understand why he would give you up to random
people that you didn’t know but you trusted him and faithfully said ‘Okay if
you think that I will make them happy I will go’. God smiled and told you to
not be afraid of where you were going but that you would return back to this
place when the time is right. So you smiled and he embraced you in his arms and
then said ‘run along now child two very nice people are waiting to meet you’.
So you ran into the pasture and in due time you became a child to a second
father and a mother down on Earth. They embraced you just as God did before you
left to come to Earth and they loved you just as God did every moment you spent
with him. Your Earth father received a message from God to tell you that you
have a very special gift of music. So your Earth father relayed the message to
you when the time was right and you spent many years trying to figure out why
God would give you the gift of music. Have you figured it out yet?” asked the
man.
“No I haven’t I feel something inside me that tells me that
my day of using it is so close but as each day passes by I didn’t accomplish
anything musically and I feel like a failure” the girl replied.
“Yes indeed that is what has happened before but now child,
you are ready. See there’s a little part of the story that I left out for this
exact moment of the conversation. Here come with me” said the man.
The man held out his hand and asked her to follow him and so
she did. He showed her the way back to the tree and told her to look at the
tree trunk again to see if she noticed anything different this time. The girl
looked at every drawing analyzing the marks in the bark trying to make sense
out of it and then she stopped.
The girl turned around to speak to the man and
said “The person in all of these drawings, they’re me aren’t they?”
“Yes that is you in every drawing on this trunk”, replied
the man.
“Who would make all of these drawings of me?” asked the
girl.
“God. He has missed you so much since he sent you to be with
your family on Earth so he started to make an art piece as he collected
important moments of your life on earth. You know, a father will always cherish
important moments of their children”, said the man.
“Is God here so I can see him?” asked the girl.
“No God is not here right now but he is always near”, the
man said as he pointed to the girl’s heart.
“So you noticed the part of the
tree trunk didn’t have any drawings on it did you?”
“Yes I did”, the girl replied.
“Well he’s waiting on you to finish the story with music
instead. God gave you music to live your life as happy as you did up here. He’s
waiting to for you to sing and write music and share your ability with others
who may not have it. He’s waiting for you to touch the hearts of the people
around you on Earth with music just as you had touched his heart when you sang
up here”, said the man.
“I sang up here? What did I sound like?” replied the girl.
“Oh you had the most beautiful voice”, the man said, “Even
the loveliest angels were jealous of your voice for they could not match you.
You see, as I found you sitting on your couch looking lower than low you were
waiting for the worst to happen but you must look high to the sky for God is
looking down on you. Indeed he misses you but he missing hearing you enjoy
using your musical ability more than anything. Free your voice and share it
with the world. Put your fingers to an instrument and you can do anything for
God has given you that special gift! Go back to Earth with the remembrance of
this place and strive to feel this place back on Earth. Look at your parents
and know that the love of God is with them for you were their special gift just
as God gave you the special gift of music. Enjoy it and live it for God is
never wrong! He gave you this to inspire others around you to become closer to
him.”
The girl hugged the man as she had a joyful tear stream down
her face at a rapid pace. She finally understood what life really was. She
finally understood that life wasn’t about making money, having a family or
pets, and beating her competition on a daily basis. Life was there for the
living and there to please God and to make him see that she had not forgotten
the time that she had already spent with him. So the man sent her back home to
continue her life and encourage God to continue drawing on her tree of life.
She smiled every day and never once sat again on that couch with the longing
face of something more. Soon her tree became full and God called her back to
heaven. When she reached him face to face she ran to him and gave him a hug
that she had longed for, for many years and then he showed her the peaceful
tree which had all of the important moments of her life back on Earth.
