by Norman Bennett

Created on: March 16, 2009

This is a story about where you came from and why you're here. If you can sit back and relax and recognize that this is just one of many stories written by one of many individuals, maybe you'll be able to enjoy the imagination of it. It's a story that may or may not be truebut try letting your analytical mind rest awhile and you may enjoy allowing yourself the opportunity of a fantasy

Once upon a time there was nothing but God. Oh, He was still infinite, He still had all knowledge and power, but He only lacked one thing in all his glory. A mirror. He knew he was glorious and powerful and could create all things and be all things and was all things, but he wasn't actually experiencing all that he was, he was just out there being big. One day all the little parts of God were laying around in all their glory and talking about what they always talked about how bright they were, how glorious they were, or how much they knew, and one of the tiny, perfect, glorious parts of God said, "I can't even really tell how bright I am because we're all so bright and beautiful and glorious and that's all I know."

Since God is everywhere, he overheard this tiny but brilliant light, and said, "You should be able to see your glory. You are part of Me and I am part of you. Why don't you go a very far distance from Me and see what I look like and come back and tell Me. Then, since we are one, if you go where I am not so overwhelming bright, you can look back at Me, and I will see My perfection, and you will see from whence you came and recognize your own glory and perfection in the process!"

All of God's ideas are brilliant, but this was the greatest idea ever. The tiny, perfect light also thought it was a great idea, along with billions of other perfect bright lights. And God sent them all on there way. They were all excited and perfect and glorious. He told the light beams that they could go wherever they wanted and do anything they wanted and experience anything they wanted. He reminded them that in order for them to see what He really was, and what they really were, they would have to experience things they had never experienced before the opposite of God fear.

All the light beams gave that very little consideration because they knew they were infinite, powerful beings and were a part of God and could never truly be hurt or harmed in any way. Some of them even decided to go farther and farther from the light. They thought that if they saw the deepest, darkest part of all that was,

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