My mother used to treat people like they were pawns on a chessboard. I can’t understand how that works. It goes so totally against my nature. I have heard that some people have no feelings at all for other living things and I can’t even imagine it. The reason I can’t imagine it is my feeling about the world is completely opposite.
If you sit me down in front of the chessboard, I don’t have to have another person there to play with the game. Even now as an adult, but even more so when I was a child. When I look at a chessboard, I see something more than just a board and some pieces. I feel like the board has some spirit to it. I feel like each piece on that board has a spirit as well. When I touch the pieces and move them around, I feel connected to them. I almost feel like I can understand what their story is. Now, I understand that these things are inanimate objects, but everything in itself is made of the same building blocks that we are. Everything has cells and atoms and some type of energy within it. Even if it isn’t imbued with life, it still is part of God’s creation and it is still connected to the physical plane that makes up this existence.
There’s nothing on Earth that doesn’t have some part of God in it. There’s nothing that God didn’t create or touch. I can see, smell, touch, taste, or hear anything in this world and know God. How could I ever look at a chessboard and just see pawns?
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
