SOME PEOPLE SLIP

THROUGH THE CRACK

Some people slip through the crack.

I don’t know how this is possible - but some people slip through the crack and end up with amazing powers and knowledge - that nobody else has - and we have no idea how many people down through the centuries have these unique powers.

I would think it’s very rare.

I’m sure God wouldn’t want - anyone to know - what these few people on our planet - who slip through the crack - know. 

Actually,  it would be unfair to them.  It would be too much to know what they know. 

It might bring joy - but then again - it would also bring sorrow. 

Tears sometimes; smiles at other times.

What am I talking about?

Well, right now, there are right now some 7.7 billion people on the planet.

It’s estimated by skilled researchers that there have been some 108 billion people who have lived on planet earth so far.

It’s estimated - numbers wise - that there have been 15 dead  people - who have gone before us -  for ever living person on the planet right now.

Now that’s a lot of people - but that’s not what I’m about to get at today. But I’ll be  sliding into that in a moment or two.

In these 7.7 billion people on the planet right now - today - and in these 108 billion people who have lived on this planet so far, every once and a while there is a special person who  slipped through the cracks and they have powers and knowledge that very few other people have.

There might be one exception: babies. What do babies know?  We don’t know what they know, but sometimes we wonder.

Some think all babies have what these few people have - and then as they age - week and after week - month after month  - babies lose this gift. It simply disappears - but not for these other people.

What gift? What are you talking about?

What do you think babies are looking at -   and thinking about as they look around - all the time - and sometimes they cry and scream?

I don’t know about this - but it’s possible - but I sort of doubt this.

What are all those little babies we see in supermarkets and in church looking at and wondering about? They are staring at something - to their right, to their left, to their up and to their down. What are these babies smiling at - sometimes - and we didn’t do anything to cause that smile  - or that scream?

Okay it’s time to fess up and tell you  just what these few people on the planet know  - these folks who have slipped through the crack and know what they know and see what they see and wonder about what they wonder about.

They see futures.

They hear all the trees on the planet asking the age old question everyone asks every little kid when they are little kids: “What are you going to be when you grow up?”

They hear every tree give their hope. For example, “I want to be a dining room table - so I can be in on everything: meals, card games, homework, people doing their taxes. I want to be a great table that every family member wants when their mom and dad pass away.”

They hear another tree say: “I want to be a baseball bat. I want to get into every game free - and hit lots of home runs. The Orioles could use me big time.”

“But,” some other tree says, “Baseball bats break and are tossed.”

“Not me,” that future hall of fame  bat from that tree said, “I’m thinking positive. I’m going to last. I’m not going to break.”

So for starters, this person can not only hear  every tree, but they can hear every rock, every watermellon, every grain of salt, talk about their future.

Think about it. This could be very stressful. This person with all these voices coming at him or her, would  have trouble hearing their own family members. They could be constantly overloaded with TMI - too much information.

And these people who slipped through the cracks - whom God forgot for a moment - felt double whammy pain in their heart and mind - because this tree here - who wanted to be a Grandfather’s Clock - in a great mansion hallway - could end up being  wood for a fire for a family whose electricity went off for a week in the middle of winter and they had to cut down this tree for fire wood - to stay warm.

Then there was that 5000 acres of trees in Arizona - which had thousands and thousands of stories and dreams on what they were going to become - all were burnt up in a late autumn forest fire. Dreams of being pianos, violins, ladders, pencils that were used to write prayers in the back of churches - they all went up in flames.  They never became their dreams.

Then there were those pessimist trees who felt they would never amount to anything.  This person who feel through the cracks - this person whom God didn’t notice - knew that this pessimist tree would end up being a frame for a 2 million, 3 hundred and 50 thousand painting by Renoir - in a big Paris art museum - hanging there for a couple of hundred years.

And this was just trees and wood.

This person who slipped through the cracks could hear cats and dogs, birds and bees, gold fish and salamanders, talk to themselves about their future - their hopes to be in mansions or be the poodle of an old lonely lady or the gold fish or guppy of  and only child in Bejing or Boston.

And this person who fell through the cracks - in time - discovered that trees and apples, all  got calls from God - sometimes  tree whispers or wind sounds - that life is all about  giving one’s life  for others - to be canes and crutches - banisters and benches - for others - or to be firewood and matches - or newspapers - all for others.

And this person who fell through the cracks - knew - and this was the most beautiful knowing and the most painful knowing - they knew - that the God - who fell through the cracks and appeared in Mary in Bethlehem and Nazareth, this Jesus told us what it’s all about.

Each of us is not called to be a selfie   - but to be an  otherly - and the greatest love in life is to know this and do this - to lay down our lives for others - to die to self - so others can rise.

That’s what we’re growing up to be and to do. And those who didn’t like this, hung him on  a tree and no tree wanted to be that tree of the cross.