Short Story: The river of love in Evelyn flowed strongly one Sunday in her

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Evelyn Palmer was in her local church one Sunday, and they were singing a song entitled, "river of love" As the song was being sung and played, Evelyn was imagining a river of love flowing through herself, and cleansing her of all her sins, ailments, pain etc. Evelyn dumped them all in the fast flowing river which was flowing in, and through her, then out of her. Evelyn also placed her open hand into the water, and scooping it up towards her mouth, she had a drink of it, thinking while she did this that this life-giving water would heal her to of all of her other current health conditions too, such, as her indigestion problems, and painful acid reflex occurences, which happened to her after just about anything that she ate. Then the next verse of the song was being sung, after Evelyn had just done this, and it included the opening words, "Heal, and be healed by love. Immerse yourself in the river of love". Now, that's funny, she mused to herself. That's just exactly what I was just doing, and I have never heard this song ever sang before. It was a new youth choir in the church performing various songs which were new to that staid old church, that particular morning. While basking warmly in this synchronistic experience, Evelyn, suddenly clicked herself back to what the Priest was saying now. The priest said that, "every time we love, we take a step closer to God." Evelyn rolled that thought over in her mind, but that would also mean she thought then that God is steps away from us now. We are distanced from him, and need to move closer to him. Father David's message seemed a nice one at first hearing then, but Evelyn queried its truthfulness. "Surely, we are all right next to God all the time. God never steps even one step away from any of us", she thought then to herself. God's river of love continually flows through us then, as close to us as our body is, but we need to get into the water, to feel its benefits and to feel close to God, and to feel his love, and to love. This is true because really we can only love in God's way through us for it to be true love, any love loving from our self alone must be always incomplete, and just a shadowing of what God's love really can be, when we fully immerse ourselves within his living waters flowing through us and in us at all times. Yes, Evelyn thought proudly to herself now, "I reckon the Priest just got that from some book, and never really thought about it much, because it does sound kind of nice, but really, it is just not true." Evelyn loved rivers. She often sat and read a book by one near her home. Is God close to us then, or far away? God tells us in the Christian Bible that he holds each of us in his hand. So, we are close to him always, and yet God's hand is often moving around, as his spirit hand moves around continually, and so we do not feel that closeness, unless we feel God's love, or his spirit of love in us, as that river of love mentioned here in my story. Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com