SHORT STORY
There is a story of a man who had been afflicted with a terminal disease.
With much fear of death, he sought counselling and help from one of his Christian doctors.
The doctor, was initially lost for words.
He did not know how to console the dying man.
As he was fumbling for an answer, he heard the noise of scratching on his door.
He got the answer of consolation.
“Do you hear that?” he asked his patient, calling his attention to the scratching noise on the door.
“Well!” continued the doctor, “that’s my dog!
I left him downstairs.
But he has become very impatient and has come up, hearing my voice.
He doesn’t have much idea, of what’s happening in here- beyond the door…
… but he knows one thing: ‘That I am here!’
And so, if I open the door now, he would just jump over me, into this room!”
The doctor continued, looking into the eyes of the patients, “Isn’t it the same with our lives?
We don’t have much idea of what lies beyond the Door, but we know that the Master is there!”