The Parable: A Dark Constriction
CATERPILLAR: All this way! All this effort! To end up here… in this miserable, dark place. (I don’t like this place…) CATERPILLAR: Dream-Maker? Do You hear me? I hate…
YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE ME! I CHOSE YOU…
For because of our faith, he has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has had in mind for us to be. Romans 5:2 TLB
CATERPILLAR: All this way! All this effort! To end up here… in this miserable, dark place. (I don’t like this place…) CATERPILLAR: Dream-Maker? Do You hear me? I hate…
Like withering grass, days slowly pass; I wonder why You haven’t come. My dreams still wait—the hour is late; When will my great deliverance be? ~~~ And bending low, You…
(DREAM-MAKER:) Time to wait. CATERPILLAR: How long? Dream-Maker! Are You listening? How long must I wait? What am I waiting for? Who? Will I know? When the time comes—will…
I’ve had you in the dark – it’s true! How could you understand? That all from the beginning Is exactly as I’ve planned. ~~~ Could I choose, dear one, to…
(DREAM-MAKER:) Far enough. Now go to the end of that branch… Hang from the end… and spin! CATERPILLAR: What!? What?! That branch… way out (gulp!) … there!? Hang from…
CATERPILLAR: Oh, dear… oh, dear… This thing You ask… It is too much! Remember me? I am only a tiny worm… that is all. Fragile, Dream-Maker… easily broken. Have You…
(DREAM-MAKER:) The time has come… We are here… Climb. CATERPILLAR: Climb? This? Climb this tree? No, Dream-Maker, I cannot! It is too high! This calling of Yours, You ask…
In dismal mud ~ far from the sky A thousand glittering nights sped by Until the one meant just for me A call to “Come…” to garden tree. “Who me?…