While walking among the mountains, John suddenly lost his balance and fell down a slope but he could catch a small tree that appeared in his way. Then, he looked around and around but found no way to walk in; at top, there was a hill which he could not climb and under it, there was a very deep slope.
Thus, he began shouting, “Help! Help!”
St-Takla.org Image: A look at the Church in Showa - Monastery of Debre Libanos, from St-Takla.org's Ethiopia visit, Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, April-June 2008. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: صورة من أعلى جبل دير ديبرا ليبانوس: لقطة على الكنيسة في شوا - من ألبوم صور دير ديبراليبانوس في عيد نقل جسد الأنبا تكلاهايمانوت، مايو 2008 - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، من رحلة موقع الأنبا تكلا إلى إثيوبيا، إبريل - يونيو 2008. |
However, no one could hear his voice to help and save him. Therefore, he continued shouting very loudly asking for help.
Finally, he heard a very kind voice asking him, ”John, John, can you see me?”
“No, who are you?”
“I’m the one who saved your whole life.”
“I need help please.”
“Don’t be afraid. I see you.”
“Where are you?”
“Everywhere.”
“Are you God?”
“Yes I’m. I want to save you. Just leave this small tree that I have sent you and throw yourself in My hands, as I’ll carry you.”
“But I can’t see Your hands. I need a rope or human hands, anything that I can see to carry me.”
John stopped talking with God for a while and he shouted again, “Help! Help!”
That time, he found no response.
→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: النجدة! النجدة!
How stupid I am!
Even when I hear Your voice,
I do not respond.
I trust the human hands not the heavenly ones.
Oh God, please help me to come back to Your bosom.
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