Raphael was a very negative person and never believed in god. Once he was travelling out of the country to New York and met with an accident, there was no one on the road who could help him as the area he was passing through was completely dead, it was two in the morning, he kept yelling for help but nobody turned up. His eyes closed and his breath almost came to a stall, he could not sense anything , his body went numb. His soul left his body and came out, he saw his grandfather who had passed away when he was seven, standing next to him. Raphael asked him, “Grandpa, how can you be here, you have passed away, how am I standing, I met with an accident?” his grandfather smiled and pointed towards his dead body “My son, that’s you, you are dead; I have come to take you”. “No, he shouted, I cannot be dead, how can I be, I am too young to die?” Raphael, ran towards his dead body and tried to enter it, but couldn’t. “What the hell??” he shouted, “God, how can you be so unfair to me.” “You never believed in his power my son and now are yelling on him, you never realized his existence and now want him to realize that he has been unfair” replied his grandpa with a lot of peace and smile on his face. He held Raphael’s hand and took him on his journey, a journey beyond life. After sometime they entered into a lot of bliss, the entire place was covered with a lot of light, a very soothing and pleasant one. “Where have you brought me, which place is this?” Raphael asked his grandfather, “This is your home, you don’t recognize it?” he replied. Raphael was quiet and was confused about the entire thing. “Come I’ll take you to your father, he has been waiting for you since so long.” “Grandpa, what are you saying, how can my father be here, he is alive, and will be at home.” “Come my son, you will understand what I am trying to tell you.” With this they entered a huge door, Raphael was amazed to see the place, it was filled with butterflies, there was fragrance of incense sticks all over. “Wow, grandpa, what a wonderful place, I feel so refreshed, so much alive here.” “Son, look who’s there”, Raphael turned towards his left and saw Jesus standing next to him. “Jesus” he said in astonishment, “You, you have come to see me.” His voice became heavy as he would about to cry. “Son, welcome to your home, I have been waiting for a long time.” Said Jesus hugging Raphael. “There is a reason why you are here” he said, “What is it?” Raphael asked. “Since you started taking care of yourself, you never believed me, you never came to a church or to see me, why is that?” asked Jesus, “ I never had any reason to believe you, whatever I did, I did it on my own, it was my hard work so why should the credit go to you?” answered Raphael. Jesus laughed and said “Oh yes, true, very true, you did all on your own, but tell me one thing, what is it that gave you strength and courage to accomplish everything?” asked Jesus, “ You mean to say it was you, huh, no way I don’t believe it” replied Raphael. Jesus smiled and said “No son, it was you, I agree but all I want you to realize is that it was me doing things through you.” Raphael was shocked after hearing this “What do you mean?” he asked. “Well, it is very simple, if I am your father, you are my part, my child, I don’t stay in churches, I stay in you, in every person every being.” Raphael in mystifying tone asked “How do I believe this, and if you stay in every person every being, why do people light candles in front of you, go to different churches to worship you?” “ I never asked anyone to visit churches, that’s what it is, I wanted people to understand my relationship with them, they created churches to show their love and respect for me, they visit there because they believe I live there” replied Jesus. He continued “ I don’t want people to stop visiting churches or worshipping me,, not because I enjoy it, only because I don’t want to stop my children in doing things that gives them pleasure and assurance of me being there with them.” “Then why do you want people to believe that you exist within them, just let them do what they are doing?” asked Raphael, “ A good father always show his children the right path, till the time it’s harming them, he never stops his children to do anything, that’s what I am doing, going to churches will not harm anybody but at the same time I want everyone to realize the beautiful relationship between me and them, they should know that I exist within them” replied Jesus. “Where do you exist within us?” asked Raphael, Jesus held his hand and asked him to come along, “Did you see that light when you entered? Asked Jesus, “Yes, it was very blissful, very soothing. “ I want you to keep looking between the center of my chest, look very carefully” said Jesus, Raphael continued looking at the point where Jesus asked him too, he saw the same blissful and soothing light. “What did you see?” asked Jesus; “The same blissful light, god, how did you do that?” replied Raphael. “This is where our father is, I am not god, I am the one in him, I am that I am. I am a part of this wonderful light, you are a part of this wonderful light, and everything that exists is a part of that wonderful light. That light is God, he does not have a shape or a body but is a pure, blissful light, you have that light too, it’s your soul that is his part, that is the reason I said that I exist within everyone, understand the relationship between me, god and you. If you’re doing something, it is actually a part of god that’s doing it” explained Jesus. “Wow Jesus, I never understood this, I now realize and understand what you mean, I have understood the relationship between me and my soul” replied Raphael. “That’s what I wanted son, I have chosen you as my special child to spread this knowledge across, do a good job.” And with this Raphael opened his eyes and found himself in a hospital, he asked the doctor who brought him to the hospital, the doctor said that he was brought by a very weird man, when he asked about his name he said “ I am that I am “ , he also asked his relationship with Raphael to which he just smiled and said “ I am his father.” The doctors asked him to wait till the time Raphael’s treatment was going on, when he returned, the man had disappeared. Raphael was silent and smiled, he now had understood the entire scenario, he understood his relationship with God, after few months when he recovered from the accident, and he decided to write a book on the same and spread Jesus’s message to every person. The one who never believed in God, now decided to work for him.
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