by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Thursday, November 19, 2009

A DIVINE GIFT

"Divine" is defined in the dictionary as:

"sacred, godlike, characteristic of a deity, heavenly, celestial, extremely good, unusually lovely, of superhuman or surpassing excellence, the qualities regarded as godly"

I came across a young boy on a farm who was playing with a gift he had received from his parents. It was an inordinately sophisticated, futuristic, robot-like technological apparatus, no batteries, that could do amazing things. The pure joy the boy had in playing with it and discovering its powers was manifest on his smiling face.

The mechanism had the capacity to:

wonder
imagine
question
judge
recall
create
anticipate
predict
enjoy
be excited
be thankful
love

The boy's parents told me that once their son realized the unique capabilities of their gift, he would play with it from morning to night...alone, sometimes with friends. He seemed always to find new things it could do, new things he could do with it. No other toy he had ever had could generate the pleasure and excitement and awe that this gift did. Every day, he marvelled at it ever more. He never wanted to be without it. It had become and would surely remain his forever friend and companion.

It was his divine mind.

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