{"id":2085,"date":"2020-06-25T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2020-06-25T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:49:22","slug":"blog-june-25th-a-conversation-in-the-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"Blog June 25th -A Conversation in the Womb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2086\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-20200513-WA0001.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nDylan &#8220;The Villian&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2085-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Love-Is-The-Way.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Love-Is-The-Way.m4a\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/02-Love-Is-The-Way.m4a<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n&#8220;Love is the Way&#8221; featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the<br \/>\nalbum &#8220;Love is the Way&#8221; recorded and produced by Bob Ross<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the lockdown has come lots of videos posted on -line \u2013 some of which I have recently shared in this blog. There have also been lots of text messages and this one, which I received via \u201cWhats App,\u201d I thought worthy of featuring today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a mother\u2019s womb were two babies. one asked the other: \u201cDo you believe in life after delivery?\u201d The other replied, \u201cWhy, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNonsense\u201d said the first. \u201cThere is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second said, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can\u2019t understand now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first replied, \u201cThat is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second insisted, \u201cWell I think there is something and maybe it\u2019s different than it is here. Maybe we won\u2019t need this physical cord anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first replied, \u201cNonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWell, I don\u2019t know,\u201d said the second, \u201cbut certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first replied \u201cMother? You actually believe in Mother? That\u2019s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second said, \u201cShe is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Said the first: \u201cWell I don\u2019t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To which the second replied, \u201cSometimes, when you\u2019re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could not resist including a photo of Dylan (\u201cThe Villain\u201d) the latest member of the Shearsmith family.\u00a0 Will tell you the story next week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quote of the week<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t have to see the whole staircase just take the first step<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Luther King <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan &#8220;The Villian&#8221; &#8220;Love is the Way&#8221; featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album &#8220;Love is the Way&#8221; recorded and produced by Bob Ross With the lockdown has come lots of videos posted on -line \u2013 some of which I have recently shared in this blog. 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