In a mother’s womb were two babies.
One asked the other: “Do you believe in life
after delivery?”
The other replied: “Why of course. There has
to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what
we will ask later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after
delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I do not know, but
there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat
from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we cannot now
understand.”
The first replied, “that is absurd.
Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical
cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is
short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is
something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we will not need this
physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if
there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the
end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and
silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
The second responded, “Well, I
do not know, but certainly we will meet mother and she will take care of us.”
The first said, “Mother? You actually believe in
mother? That’s laughable. If mother exists, then where is she now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We
are surrounded by her. We are of her. It is of her that we live. Without her
this world would not and could not exist.”
The first said, “Well I do not see her, so it is
only logical that she does not exist.”
The second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in
silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive her presence, and
you can hear her loving voice calling down from above.”
