Here’s a little tale i’ve woven around a Bible incident in John chapter 4 involving a woman we’ll call Leonora
LEONORA by Mick
Leonora had had a rough life. A string of lovers had treated her bad, and now she’d ended up with another here in this remote village in old Samaria miles from anywhere, going out of her skull with boredom and feeling as if life was passing her by.
Then her latest fancy man shouted from the other room telling her to go get some water,so she trudged wearily down the road in the sweltering heat to the well.
A few travellers who she’d never seen before were sitting there in the shade of the trees looking tired, yet good-humouredly talking among themselves, and one of them smiled and asked her in a Galileean accent to draw some water for them.
She was surprised that a Jew would talk to a Samaritan , but he chatted a bit more with her about “living water” and other matters, and about her poor track record with men who used her like a doormat.
She told him how she yearned for the bright lights of Jerusalem where things happened and where it said in the ancient scriptures the Messiah would appear, though if and when that would be, nobody knew.
She said she liked to dream what he’d be like, a warrior king maybe, in bright silver armour riding a proud white horse, and that he’d explain everything to the people once and for all.
“Huh! i’ll never see the Messiah stuck out here” she said as a tear rolled down her cheek, “when i die that’s it,nobody’ll remember me or even know i existed, and he wouldn’t want to talk to a nobody like me anyway…”.
The man gently brushed away her tear with his fingertips, lifted her chin, gazed straight into her eyes and softly replied with a smile:- “I’m him. He’s talking to you now…”
And the woman in that tiny remote village long ago will be remembered in the Bible until the end of time…
“The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.” (John 4:26)
Jesus saves people because they can’t save themself?
That’s the golden ticket?
Strange times, strange times…
Mick, you’re probably on your way up to holy service, but please do tell me: What does your god do with spirits that are not human? He seems pretty interested in humanity, but no other species are listed.
I’m not talking about our universe as a whole this time [and there are many universes], but within our one little milky way there are about 100 billion stars.
Pleanty of these stars have planets orbiting around them. Some of these worlds are very similar to our own, with different forms of life existing upon and within them. [And that’s just the physical life forms. Non-material beings outnumber material beings in variety and in occurance.]
The amount of physical species within even this small portion of this one universe cannot ever be fully numbered and understood by humans.
What about the others? They never got mentioned by the “Creator”?
I think that your god usedto be human, and “he” has allot of human spirits that are in on his side, but I don’t think “he” is all-mighty or all-knowing.
Dan quote - Mick, you’re probably on your way up to holy service…
Mick reply - Not if my 3 months jail sentence on a Vigilante rap gets me a black mark
Dan quote - The amount of physical species within even this small portion of this one universe cannot ever be fully numbered and understood by humans. What about the others? They never got mentioned by the “Creator”?
Mick reply - Oh no? Who says God and Jesus don’t get around? Check this -
“…praise to the Lord, to him who rides the ancient skies above…” (Psalm 68:33-34)
Jesus said - “There are other sheep not of this fold that I must bring…” (John 10:16)
