Imperfect People

 Today, my "cloistered brothers" and I were discussing  Questioning God,                   and Jeremiah's stuttering was mentioned.  No one recalled anywhere in scripture where that was mentioned.  We looked it up. Isaiah 28: 11:  "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." 

Father Radcliffe, in Questioning God, with Popko Lukas, mentions the stuttering of the poet, David Jones, in A..a...a Deus Domine. In this poem, Jones is looking for God.  He needs God, much like a stutterer needs help.  No one can rely in himself.  We need help and divine help would be best. 

Heaven for Stutterers

At retreat today, the retreat friar told us a poignant story.  The assignment was "What is heaven?"  Naturally, everyone had their own opinion.  There was one, however, that stood out.

One of the eighteen-year-old students stuttered very badly.  She said, "Heaven is a place where everyone stutters."

She explains that once a year she attends a conference for people who stutter.  She loves to go to this conference.  Everyone there stutters.  She feels very comfortable.  She is not alone.  She can relax and stop thinking about what others think of her.   She feels most at home there. It's heaven.

Indeed.

She's right.  Heaven is where we will feel the most comfortable.  We will be home.