For You... To Be Like You
One day a British scientist discovered a large anthill in
his kitchen garden. These were different from any ants he
had observed before, so he was eager to study them. But each
time his shadow fell across the anthill, the terrified ants
scurried off in terror.
"I stepped back," the scientist wrote in his diary, "and sat
down on the grass to think out the situation. I had only
good will for the ants, did not wish to harm one of them.
But how could I make the ants aware of my good will?
"My imagination played with the problem. To those tiny ants,
I was an all-powerful creature - somehow up there, whose
thoughts they could not guess, whose ways and intentions
they could not know.
"If only I could communicate," the scientist wrote. "But
even that would not be enough. Even then, I would be a
gigantic being to the ants, and they would never believe
that I understood their problems - the minute organization
of the hill, their struggles for food, their battles with
other ants.
"Only one thing could give them complete confidence. That
is, if by some alchemy, I could - for a time - become an
ant."
Think of how God the Father so much loves us that He has
sent His only Begotten Son to have us children of His own.
That was why the Incarnation was necessary. And that is why
Jesus insisted, "I have come down from heaven not to carry
out my own will but the will of him who sent me" (John 6:38)
and that "He who has seen me has seen the Father." (John
14:9) And that is the essence of our joy.
P.S. I would like to reference the original source of
this story to wonderful book called "Beyond Ourselves" from
Catherine Marshall.
Maria Hanna
(maria_s_hanna@yahoo.com)