December 6

CHARITY is not doubting, but believing

Then Jesus said to Thomas...  “Stop your doubting and believe.” 
~ John 20:27

Once, twins were conceived in a womb.  Together they explored it saying, “How great is our mother’s love that she shares with us her very life.” Weeks passed; the twins began to change. 
The first said to the second, “This means our life in the womb is coming to an end.”
The second replied, “I don’t want it to end.  I want to stay here forever.”
The first said, “But maybe there is life after birth.”
The second replied, “How can there be?  We’ll shed our mother’s cord, and how is life possible without it?”
The twins fell into doubt. “If life in the womb ends in death,” they said, “What’s its purpose?”
And so the last days in the womb were filled with confusion and fear.  Finally, the moment of birth came.  When the twins opened their eyes, they cried for joy.  For what they saw exceeded their wildest dreams.
~ Mark Link, S.J.

What is the point of this parable?

What no one ever saw or heard, what no one ever thought could happen, is the very thing God prepared for those who love him. 
~ 1 Corinthians 2:9