Short story: A case of reincarnation achieves God's goals for this soul

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John based his life on around how he thought that others were thinking about him. He would never do anything that he thought would upset someone, and so turn them against him, both in mind, or heart. When, he finally made it to Heaven, after an uneventful life, and a rather easy death too, God asked him, "What do you want me to think of you?" "Do you want to subtly control my views of you too?" "You should have not so much not cared about what others think, but also thought more about what you thought too." "I will send you back again for another go." And so, John came back again, and he was born into the body of a tree. He had no voice, as such, but his mind did work for him, as he watched the world going on around him. He did not care anymore what other souls thought of him as this tree. John lived a long life, as that tree, but eventually, the axeman found him, and he was made into a kitchen table, for that man. Once again, he became sort of caring about what others thought of him as a table. Was he an attractive, well built, solid table, or just a cheap, rustic, roughly put together, shoddy, example, of a table? Some people liked his solidness; others belied it, as being far too heavy for them to move on their own. One day, a teenage age boy etched a message into him, in his table body, on the upper surface, which said: "The King's mark." This hurt the table, but the message did mean something to him too. He knew the history of this mark, which, centuries ago, used to be etched onto trees. He recalled that another such mark, the same as this one, was also existing on his underside, unknown, of course to this young boy. "The King's mark", is an etching of a broad arrowhead, made onto a tree, which had been thusly set aside for the exclusive use for the building of Royal Navy ships. As iron and steel took over wood to become the preferred material for shipbuilding, these royally marked trees remained untouched, and so many still existing, still bear this mark until today, now many centuries later. And so now, the table had two King's marks on him, and he remained proud of this, for the rest of his days, as a table. A housefire eventually saw the end of him though, and once again he found himself in God's company, once more again. "I have tabled you down here to go into the King's palace here," God said to him. "You have learnt your lesson well, and you will now be my own personal assistant here in Heaven." The table, now back in his soul body, did not yet know that every soul that enters Heaven is God's own personal assistant too. He was just pleased to have made it into Heaven, this time, and maybe, just maybe, it was because he had been earmarked for this, aeons ago too, when God had placed his own mark on this newly created soul too, an arrow that pointed it to Heaven. All such arrows, fired out from Heaven, eventually return there again, one day. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Picture: John, seen here, as a kitchen dining table.