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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 be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t 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 can’t understand now.”
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 so 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 won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has 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.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “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 in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which 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.”
A dear friend sent this to me. It’s attributed to Hungarian writer Útmutató a Léleknek. It reminds me of our Lenten journey, being “saved through water” (1 Pt 3:18-22). Birth… our first sacrament.
Jessica found grounding in sun, soil, and food as a young mother. Her past tracks through spiritual communities, but ordinary life in a blended family and tending relationships with backyard chickens and fruit trees illuminated her path. She loves her community orchard (The Orchard on Virginia) where she grows pawpaws, june berries, community, and stories. She also likes to share her gluten-free baking.
2 responses to “Life After Birth by Útmutató a Léleknek”
One type of life ends and another more beautiful is born. Consciousness expands through ever new forms of being sojourning through eternity back to Source.
thanks for share about birth by water .we have 3 houses , the first is womb for 9 months and 2nd is now which live about 100 years and the last in heaven for eternal life. …..
Jessica Gazzola 
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