The Man I Want to Speak To

A Short Story

(Thanks Steven, who first taught me this)

The trap is used to catch the rabbit...
After the rabbit is caught, the trap is of no use, and we put the trap away.
The net is used to catch the fish...
After the fish is caught, the net is of no use, and we put the net away.
The words are used to catch the truth...
When I meet the man who has put away the words... he is the man I want to speak to.

(I advise you stop reading here, so that you can have your own relevation... but if you want to read mine, read on)

We are surrounded with rules, with teachings, with 'process' and 'procedures'. It is the rare person who can look at all this "how" and discover the "why". In the end, many of us are just following what we are taught, and think what we are told to think.

"Our religion is the TRUE FAITH."

"They are WRONG - we are RIGHT"

"Strangers are TERRORISTS"

"They are soldiers of the great SATAN"

"They destroyed our TOWERS so we will lay their land WASTE."

"JERUSALEM is OUR Holy City"

Always you look in black and white..... always you use the words to separate yourself from your brother. You are chewing the trap and forgetting the rabbit, sucking the net and dropping the fish.

Behind all those words there is only One God. Come to Him, and put the words away.
Pax Vobiscum