This post is for all you who believe we have no Creator: There was once a colony of mice who lived all their lives in a large, magnificent grand piano. To them in their piano-world came the marvelous sounds of the beautiful instrument, filling all the dark spaces with rich music and sweet harmony. At first the mice were overwhelmed with awe. They drew comfort and strength from the thought that there was Someone -- though invisible to them -- who made the music, someone close by, yet above and beyond them, someone who transcended their little piano-lives. They loved to think of the Great Unseen Player to whom they attributed the lovely melodies. They honored Him and praised His greatness and magnificent creativity. Then one day a daring mouse climbed up to another part of the piano. Soon she returned, very thoughtful and a little disturbed. She had discovered how music was really made. Wires were the secret: tightly stretched wires of graduated lengths and thicknesses which throbbed and trembled and pulsated. They must revise all their old, outdated beliefs: none but the most ignorant simpleton could any longer believe in the Great Unseen Player. Later, another adventuresome explorer-mouse carried the explanation even farther. Hammers were the true secret -- dozens of felt-covered hammers dancing and leaping on the wires. This was a more complicated theory, but it all went to show that they lived in a purely mechanistic, mathematical world -- lets hear no more about this mythical Great Unseen Player. Any thinking mouse could see that there was nothing to the Player myth. He did not exist! Untroubled by their unbelief, the Great Unseen Player kept on playing anyway! And the mice still heard the rich music and pleasant harmony! Some insisted there was an intelligence, a design to the music that couldnt come simply by randomness, without a Player creating the wonderful music they so loved. The arguments churned on, and the piano-mice lived in conflict and disagreement. Still the Great Unseen Player, untroubled by the heated debate, kept right on creating the rich, melodious songs that touched their souls, believer and unbeliever alike. The Rev. Curtis Alexander
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:10:21 +0000
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