Faith
Today is Day Six of the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge. Click on the letter picture to the right for more information about this blog hop. Like last year, I’m writing 100-word flash fiction stories/poems/scenes for this year’s challenge. Today’s is:
Faith
“I can’t.”
“Can’t what, Simeon?”
Simeon looked bleak, even weary.
“Believe. In God.”
“But, you’ve seen things human eyes never see. Heard things human ears never hear!”
“Think I’ve seen. Think I’ve heard.”
“We heard them too!”
“You think. But, it just doesn’t make sense. Things like that don’t happen in the real world.”
“Maybe not according to your worldview. Doesn’t mean they aren’t real.”
“They aren’t rational!” Simeon flared.
“And where did reason come from?”
Simeon sighed and glanced at the stone tablets on the floor.
“Besides,”–he looked up at Moses–“if your God is real, I’m accountable.”
Come back tomorrow for G…
Nobody can know and will not until the end.
Thanks for the comment, Keith. I’ll have to write an article sometime about divine revelation and what it means for Christian theology. Very germane to this. 🙂
Great flash fiction.
Thanks, Patricia. 🙂
This was good, Colin! Nicely done.
Thanks, Donna! 😀
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1
I respectfully disagree with Keiths Ramblings. I know what I know, and I know God lives.
NIcely done. It makes one really wonder what it was like “back then.” I hope I would have been among the believers at that time as well.
Thanks! It is interesting to speculate. We know from the grumbling of the Israelites in Numbers that the miraculous things they saw didn’t have lasting impact, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some Simeons in there. 🙂 Of course, this just bears witness to the truth of Hebrews 11:1.
Belief is hard…
It is, which is why true faith is a gift. Thanks for stopping by, Liz! 🙂
Nice work.
Thanks, Chuck!