God's perfection

The story below is a excellent example of God’s perfection.
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In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be mainstreamed into conventional schools. At a Chush fundraiser dinner, the father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, “Where is the perfection in my son, Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God’s perfection?” The audience was shocked by the question, pained buy the father’s anguish, and stilled buy the piercing query.

“I believe,” the father answered, “that when God brings a child like this into the world, the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child.” He then told the following story about his son, Shaya.

One afternoon Shaya and his father walked past a park where some boys Shaya knew were playing baseball. Shaya asked, do you think they’ll let me play?” Shaya’s father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want him on their team. But Shaya’s father understood that if his son was chosen to play, it would give him as sense of belonging. Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance form his teammates. Getting none, he took matters into his own hands and said, “We’re losing by six runs, and the game is in the eight inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning.

Shaya’s father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya was told to put on a glove and go out to play in center field. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shaya’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shaya’s team scored again, and now had two outs and the bases loaded, with the potential winning run on base, Shaya was scheduled to be up. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knows that it was all but impossible because Shaya didn’t even know how to hold the bath properly, let alone hit with it. How ever, as Shaya stepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved as few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shaya could at least be able to make contact. The first pith came in, and Shaya swung clumsily and missed. One of Shaya’s teammates came up to Shaya, and together they held the bat and faced the pitcher waiting for the next pitch. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shaya. As the pitch came in, Shaya and his teammate swung the bat, and together they hit a slow ground ball to the pitcher. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shaya would have been out and that would have ended the game. Instead, the pitcher took the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field far beyond the reach of the first baseman. Everyone started yelling, “Shaya, run to fits. Run to first.” Never in his life had Shaya run to first. He scampered down the baseline wide-eyed and startled. By the time he reached first base, the right-fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second baseman who would tag out Shaya, who was still running.

But the right-fielder understood what the pitcher’s intentions were, so he threw the ball high and far over the third baseman’s head. Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second.” Shaya ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously circled the bases toward home. As Shaya reached second base, the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of third base, and shouted, Run to third.” As Shaya rounded third, the boys from both teams ran behind him screaming, “Shaya, run home.” Shaya ran home, stepped on home plate, and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the hero, as he had just hit a “grand slam” and won the game for his team.

“That day,” said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, “those 18 boys reached their level of God’s perfection.”

Story was taken from a book called “The power of Intention” by Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Even though it has been a few year since the first time I’ve read that story every time I reread it I find my eyes tearing up from the sheer beauty of the story. The story is such a beautiful example of God’s perfection truly is. Those 18 boys a long with Shaya all reached that level of God’s perfection. They became exactly what God made them to be. If Shaya himself wasn’t perfect then he wouldn’t have been able to bring that perfection that God represents out of those boys so yes, Shaya himself reached that level as well. To be aligned with the God that lives within us and all around us is to obtain that level of perfection which we all crave. God has never made a “flawed” creation in all eternity. We were literally made in God’s imagine and also we come straight from God so that makes us exactly like what we come from. We have all of the unlimited ability that our Source has; we are One with our Source so this means that we are of Love (Love is exactly what God is). God’s perfection shines bright within the words of the “Shaya” story and it shines bright in all of us as well. Never for get who’s you are and more importantly Who you are. Keep on shining!!!

Namaste