Faith

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Is There Life After…?
© 2005
by

Stephen A. Peterson


On a hot July evening in Prague, Oklahoma, twin girls were conceived. In a few weeks, the two little girls grew. As they grew so did their awareness of each other and their surroundings. Soon the two little girls began to laugh and talk to each other saying: “Gosh! Isn’t it so good and great that we were conceived? Isn’t it so great to be alive?”

As the girls grew and grew and became knowledgeable of their world, they began to hear the voices of three very different people—one called “father”, another called “mother”, and a third one called “brother”. Although these voices confused them at first, they came to learn who was who. They found out that their whole world was with mother. As they talked to each other, they both agreed that it was so great to be with mother saying, “How absolutely cool it is that our mother loves us so much that she is so willing to share herself with us!” Both little girls kicked and shouted: “We love you mommy for sharing yourself with us! Thank you momma!”

As the weeks turned to months, the little girls could see that each began to look different from when they first saw each other. Girl number one asked the other: “What’s happening to us? Why is this happening?”

“I dunno,” said the other little girl.

“Oh, well!” said twin number two. “It’s really fun to move my hands and feet like this and bounce around in the water like this! Wee, isn’t this fun!!!”

“Yeah! This is great!” said twin number one.

One day the girls heard mother crying and praying. And they heard sounds and voices they never heard before. They heard screaming noises that caused them to cover their ears and people called “doctor” and “nurse”.

“What does this mean? Who are this doctor and nurse?” asked number one twin.

“Gee, I’m not sure,” said twin number two.

“I believe it means that our life in this world is ending.” said number one twin.

“NO! NO!” shouted the twin girl number two. “I don’t want to go! I love it here! I want to say here forever! NO!”

The twin girl number one said, “I don’t believe we have a choice. But maybe there’s life outside of our mother’s womb! Do you suppose?”

“I don’t know!” said twin number two. “And I don’t wanna know either! I’m gonna do everything I can do to stay in mother!”

Twin number one thought aloud, “I wonder if others have been here before us and have experienced life after being born?”

“NO! There can’t be!” shouted twin number two. “Nobody has ever come back to tell us if there is life after being born! I’m scared! I’m so scared!”

Number two twin girl became very frighten then depressed saying: “There can’t be anything after you’re born. If there is something after leaving mother, why didn’t somebody out there tell us? Maybe there isn’t anything after mother! I’m scared!”

“Sister that just can’t be so!” said number one twin. “How did we come to be here? Why are we here? Who is feeding us? How am I able to talk to you? There are so many questions I have that I can’t answer!”

“I dunno!” said number two twin. “Have you ever seen mother or father or brother?”

“Well no!” said number one girl.

“Maybe we made them up and we were hearing voices to make us feel good. Or maybe its just all of this water we’re in swishing up against this womb and making these sounds we hear. This all the life there is! There’s no life after this! I’m staying right here! I’m gonna do everything I can to stay right here!”

Soon number one twin was gone. Number two twin cried and fought leaving the womb remaining there for another twelve hours before she was finally born to meet her twin sister. “Oh, my!” said the reluctant twin. She cried when she saw her sister, mother, father and brother who also cried. Mother smiled, held then kiss her two new little twin girls. Both little girls came to learn how beautiful the world was and how much their mother, father,and brother loved, wanted and waited for them to be with them.

The twin girls learned that there is life after birth. In the same way, there is life after death. The twins struggled with what it would be like once they were born. In the same way the twins struggled with life after birth, many people, many of them Christian, struggle with what it is going to be like when they are born again through death. However, unlike the twins, Christians, indeed all who will listen, have been told what heaven will be like by our brother, Jesus Christ. For this reason, we have nothing to fear! Yet, like number two twin, we fear because we refuse to trust in God’s promises.

In the coming weeks, we will celebrate our birth through the labor/work and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is my hope that all who read these letters come to understand that there is life more abundantly for those who live in the love of Jesus Christ and have a relationship with him! HAPPY EASTER to all!

Soli pro Gloria Dei!

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