Andrew and Christy, who are two fabulous, creative, and compassionate people in our community (They also recently started a fabulous organization that is all about loving on the people in a particular community in Malawi.  It’s called Collective Hope.), recently led Awake in a parable-writing exercise while we were on our retreat.  We hope to get these parables in front of you in the near future, but for now, check out Andrew’s Aurora parable:

In the light of learning to live into parable and what that means for our daily lives, I decided to write a parable for our community of Aurora.

Here is my attempt:

There once was a young girl named Aurora. She was the most beautiful girl in the entire city. She was always full of life, of love and hope for the future and her neighbors. Everyday she would awake at dawn and begin her walk down the lonely streets of the city. Aurora would see many hurting and broken people living on the streets, in back alleys, and old vans. But one man caught her attention more than the others, because he was sleeping a small cardboard structure.

“Excuse me, sir? May I be of help?” said Aurora timidly. “ I don’t your urgh help, silly girl, get away from me!” Aurora kept slowly approaching the scary man and began to open her small arms to him. “Get the hell away from me!” Huffed the man. Aurora slowly wrapped her arms around his legs and just held him. “AHHH!” the man screamed and kicked and cursed loudly. “LET GO! I HATE YOU!” But Aurora closed her eyes and held on tightly.

The struggling man reached for a bottle of pills he had nearby and began to open it. Aurora quickly snatched the bottle and swallowed every pill! Again the man cursed and screamed and franticly reached for his syringe needles. Aurora promptly grabbed each syringe jamming them each into each of her veins. Aurora screamed in pain, the angry man yelled in rage and fear.

Aurora continued to hold the man with all the strength she had left. The angry man’s eyes began to soften, the volume and intensity of his words quieted, and his chin lowered to his chest, as the man began to softly sob.

“I love you”, whispered Aurora. “I love you too Aurora, thank you, thank you. I will plan on seeing you again tomorrow”.

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What truths or meaning do you see here?

Does this evoke emotion in you? If so, What?

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