There have been many lives lived before our own, yet most of us know very little prior to our grandparent’s age. What if we knew more about the people who came before us? History is full of fascinating stories, some perhaps right under our nose.
In 672 AD, Bede, a historian and Biblical teacher, wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. It is a work that discusses the conversion of polytheism to Christianity. In Bede’s writings, he states:
When we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall...In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came.”
What a fascinating analogy of life. Previous birds have flown before us and future ones will come. However, we have one thing in common, we were all at one point in time in the same warm banqueting-hall.
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