Parable of the Heart


Parable of the Heart



There was a man who loved God. He went to churches, mosques, temples in his search for God. He married, had children, a good job, yet still didn't feel he knew God. He prayed day and night until
his knee caps had sores. He called out for God to make Himself known in
his life. Hearing nothing from God, he balled his fists at God, in anger
and frustration. Why won't God talk to me, he wondered?


He loved his family and they loved him. He gave them all the material comforts,
yet he was angry because he felt God was hiding from him, and he wanted
God to be real in his life. He tried over and over attending churches, mosques, temples. He studied all the religions, isms, schisms, sects,cults. He almost had a breakdown because he believed God was playing tricks with
him.

Finally God spoke to him. He said, look, man, you haveeverything any man could want: a beautiful family, good job, a sincere
heart. Why do you keep calling me. Do you think I am deaf?

I've done all I can do for you. You have everything. Get off yourknees, there is no need to pray to me. Why are you praying when I've
already answered? Are you an ungrateful wretch? Don't you know I have
plenty of work to do with all these wretched beings causing hell on
earth? Why do you want me to waste time with you when I made you
perfect, without defect?

Your search for me is in vain because Ihave been with you all the time. Every time your heart beats, that is me
moving inside you. Now what else do you need to know?

And so theman came to know God as his heart beating in the day and in the night.
He came to believe and know the religion of the heart. He no longer
searched for God in buildings, churches, mosques, temples, but instead
listened to his heart beat, the rhythm of his soul. He looked to the God
within and without, since God also told him He was everywhere in all
things, that there was nothing and nowhere He was absent.

He was in the trees, rivers, oceans, fish, cows, horses, mountains, old people, poor,
rich, youth, hungry, sick, dope fiend, alcoholic, sinner. All is in God
and God is in all. He is in the fly, bees, birds, ants, mosquitoes,
rats, snakes.

His family was so happy he had found God in hisheart. They wondered why it took so long for him to see the light. Hiswife told him she saw God in his face the day they met. And she still
sees that glow around him. That's why she married him--the only reason!
--MarvinX
4/6/10
www.parablesandfablesofmarvinx.blogspot.com
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