Rev. Jeff Wood, First Presbyterian Church of Sebastian
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THE KITE
I first heard this fable from Rev. Earl Palmer twenty years ago. I was delighted to hear him again recently through a DVD lecture on Romans. I share it with you gladly .
Once upon a time, there was a kite. It flew well. It flew high. Then one day, while flying high, the kite looked up and thought: “How nice it would be, if I could go further up, above all the other kites around me.” He tried to go up, but he felt himself being pulled down by the string. Frustrated he said to himself: “Oh, this string! It’s a nuisance. If only I could be free of this string, I could fly into the heaven itself.”
One day, while up in the air, in its eagerness for the freedom, the kite pulled with all its strength, and surprisingly, this time, the string snapped and at last, he became free! But his joy and excitement were very short-lived. To his surprise and dismay, he found himself going down and down, instead of soaring up into heaven. He crashed. The poor kite was not aware that the very string that pulled on him was the one which held him high in the air!
Religion, interestingly, comes from the Latin religio, meaning to bind. Religion rightly practiced helps us fly.
Rev. Jeff Wood, 1405 Louisiana Ave, Sebastian FL 32958.
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