Faith
Until now,
you have asked
nothing
in
My name.
[John 16:24]
**********************
"JESUS?
Are YOU
THERE?"
(Look up,
searchingly,
at the ceiling.)
"CAN,
YOU
HELP ME?"
[SMILE!]
"Here
I AM,
child."
(Squirm.)
"Eh....
yeah.
Well....."
(Squirm.)
(Look away,
embarrassed.)
[SMILE!]
(Look about,
uncomfortably.)
"Eh....
well.....
listen,
I had talked
to the LORD,
today...."
[SMILE!]
[GENTLE CHUCKLE.]
"You did,
My precious?"
(Woeful look.)
"Yeah.
I was ASKING
Him,
to HELP me!"
(Kvetchy frown.)
"NATURALLY,
He said
NO."
(Woeful frown.)
[SMILING JOYFULLY.]
"Ah.
I see."
(Frown.)
"Yeah;
so....Ya know;
I was thinkin',
maybe...
Ya know:
I could ask YOU."
[LOVING GAZE.]
"Ah;
yes.
I understand."
(Clueless squint.)
"So....eh;
do I have to
explain it,
ALL...
to YOU....
AGAIN?"
(Look up, hopefully.)
"Or.....
does the
FATHER,
just TELL
Ya,
this STUFF?"
(Squint upwards.)
(Wave hands,
about.)
"How does THAT,
WORK?"
[PATIENT SILENCE.]
(Woeful sigh.)
"Well.....
it's about these
DREAMS,
I've been having...."
[PATIENT NOD.]
"Go on,
My beloved."
"Yeah;
well,
they're BAD dreams!
And...
I asked the LORD!
And....HE SAID NO!"
"About what,
My precious?"
(Kvetchy frown!)
"Do I have to
go through all
THIS,
AGAIN,
JESUS?
The whole...
MISHE'MEGHILLAH*?"
[DELIGHTED CHUCKLING!]
[PATIENT NOD.]
[SMILE!]
(Frown!)
"I'm not sure,
if You understand
Yiddish, or not."
(Thoughtful squint.)
"Well....
ANYHOW...
so, Ya know,
they're bad DREAMS!
And, I asked the LORD....."
"Yes,
child?"
(Ornery shout!)
"To STOP 'EM!
TO STOP 'EM!
And,
HE SAID NO!"
[PATIENT NOD.]
"Ah.
I see."
(Woeful look at the
ceiling.)
"WELL?
Can YOU do
SOMETHIN'?
They TELL ME,
THAT'S WHAT
YUR' FOR!"
[CURIOUS GAZE.]
"Who,
child?"
(Impatient yell.)
"THESE CHRISTIANS!
These CHRISTIANS!
And....
I'm JEWISH!"
(Woeful gaze at
the ceiling.)
[MUCH PATIENT NODDING.]
"Ah....
I SEE."
[NODDING.]
(Woeful face!)
"Ya see,
what I MEAN?
So....I just thought;
...maybe....
YOU could
do somethin'!"
[PATIENT VOICE.]
"What do
you wish
Me,
to do,
child?"
"TALK to 'IM!
Just,
TALK to Him!"
(Woeful, hopeful
glance at ceiling fan.)
"So...
COULD YOU?"
(Gaze up at fan,
holding hands upward,
shrugging.)
[SMILE!]
"Why don't
You TALK to Him,
like....
in the AFTERNOON:
when, He's in a
better MOOD?"
[GENTLE CHUCKLE.]
"Yes,
child.
I understand."
"Well......."
(Woeful shrug.)
"Just let me
KNOW."
(Woeful face.)
"SEE what
You,
can DO."
[JOYFUL SMILE!]
************************
Most assuredly,
I say to you,
whatever you ask
the Father
in My name
He will give you.
Until now
you have asked
nothing
in My name.
Ask,
and you will
receive,
that your joy
may be
full.
[John 16:23-24]
________________________
*Yiddish:
a very long, long..
long story:
with no ending.
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