Short story: The Beggar who preached

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Alf Joltharth had been living on the streets as a beggar for more than twenty years. Then, suddenly he began to preach on the steps of the Post Office building, in the capital city of his state. His first talk went like this: "Here is a quote from that great actor of our time, Morgan Freeman." '”Learning how to be still, to really be still, and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance."' "We are so often controlled by our own minds, that we never achieve this level of stillness, and of letting things be." "This need for control comes from our sitting in fear, and acquiescing to this fear, rather than our moving to our heart, and embracing the love there." "Rather than moving to your heart though, you just stay in your mind too afraid to move." "Now, love is the greatest power force of God that lives in all souls." "This love creates a life for you to live based on love. You have the free-will to either accept love, or allow nonlove, to stay around in you." "The only way to allow full love, and to limit non-love, is to be filled with the holy spirit, which is the carrier and lifeblood of God's love in you, as much as you allow it to live in you guiding you to be you." "You might ask me whether struggle really makes us stronger, and helps us to climb the mountain of love." "Is there such a mountain to climb, or is love a flat plain on which we create our own mountains?" "I would answer you that struggle is not a part of perfect love, but it comes into existence when less than perfect love is being lived from." "Struggle is always only ever about returning us to full and perfect love." "Love draws you incessantly towards itself again. You simply struggle when you resist its pull to be you, within love, within God." "Who are you?" "You are a part of God that belongs to God, but is only freely operating within God, when it is you." And with that last line, the beggar simply walked back down the steps of the Post Office, and resumed his place on the footpath, as a beggar. His listeners were left perplexed as to where that wisdomed talk had come from. We all have such wisdom in us, and sometimes we should allow ourselves to talk our talk, from our hearts, as Alf finally did here. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Alf rose to the occasion here for once in his life. We should do the same at least once in our lives too.