I am a peasant in North Korea.
And sometimes at night when the sky is clear
I look up from my door in pure wonder and fear
And although it is Kim I do revere
and in Kim I do hope and to Kim I am swayed
and for Kim I do work and with his currency am paid
oh but, those stars that somebody else has made!
I must be a traitor for them I do praise.
And each time I get to partake of this treat
it’s as if the sky itself begins to speak.
It whispers and calls, it shouts, it screams,
and I just stand listening and drinking the stream
On a night such as this in North Korea
something inside me clicks into gear
and I begin speeding out over these huts
and travelling to places that no one can touch
Ssssh...
I must not say more for in Kim I do trust
before Kim I do bow and Kim I do revere
For I am what he has made me upon this sphere
I am just a peasant in North Korea

Dave Scott-Morgan 27 July 2010

 

Imagine it. You and me, children in a cot. Toddlers laughing and crying and pushing and shoving each other; - and sometimes when we get fed up with playing with our toys and shouting, we get to look up at the room we are in: And we notice an amazing thing: The wallpaper on the walls is the same whichever way we look! And we wonder what the wallpaper is made of, and what lies beyond it, if anything.

But the bottom line is we are stuck inside our cot. We cannot get out of it. In fact no more than a handful of very special kids have ever been privileged to peek over the cot’s parapet, and then only by playing with very expensive and dangerous toys. And no kid has ever been able to throw his toy anywhere near the wallpaper!

The fact is, the room, the cot and the wallpaper belong to God. And God, being God, knew when He made the room and the cot, just how far us kids would be able to throw our toys before close of play. And he chose the wallpaper accordingly. You see, the bible tells us an amazing thing: The wallpaper on the walls, the ceiling and the floor, was put there after the cot was made! The room was prepared on the first and second day, the cot was made on the third day and the wallpaper was chosen on the fourth day ‘..he made the stars also… and the evening and the morning were the fourth day.’ (Gen 1:14-19)

This is too mind boggling to take in. And yet, there is more... For the bible tells us that us kids were made last - on the sixth day! Am I missing something here? Because this leads me to the most astonishing revelation: The room with its wallpaper was put there for the benefit of the kids only! And when I look around I notice that we are the only creatures on the planet who look up and marvel at the ‘wallpaper’. No other creature but man instinctively stands and gazes at the beauty and majesty of the heavens above. Other creatures might see the stars but none stand gawping at them except us. Could it be that the sole purpose of the fabulous wallpaper is to display the majesty of the creator to us 'kids'.

Dave Scott-Morgan 11 March 2010.