Hide and Seek
One
summer day a mother looked out through the window of her house. There in the
garden she saw her little daughter rolling around the grass in laughter. Intrigued,
she went outside to investigate.
Approaching
her daughter the mother asked, “My child, what do you find so amusing?”
“I
understand, I understand,” replied the child among bursts of giggles.
“What
do you mean?” questioned the mother.
“Well,”
answered the child, “I was playing outside on the grass when I started thinking
about God, and how I have heard people say that God is everywhere. But I looked
around and couldn’t see God anywhere. Then I thought that God must be playing a
game of hide and seek. So I decided to try finding God.”
“I
looked amongst the roses for I have heard that God is beautiful. But God was
not there. I lay on my back and searched the skies for I have heard that God is
up in the Heavens. But God was not there. I dug in the ground for I have heard
that God supports us all. But God was not there. And I became very frustrated
and I called out -where are you God? Why have you left me? And then, all of a sudden,
a sense of peace came over me and I realized the Truth!”
Spellbound,
the mother gently inquired, “What truth?”
“That,”
giggled the little child, “it was not God who was hiding; it was me.”
