The Hummingbird’s Daughter
The Hummingbird’s Daughter is a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Here are some passages about God that I like:
“You see,” Huila explained, “this is how Heaven works. They’re practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is a worker, like us. He made the world. He didn’t find poor Indios to built it for him! God has worker hands. Just remember — angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.”
Huila is a medicine woman. She talks to plants.
Teresita who is learning to become a medicine woman notes that Huila actually said, “Good morning,” to a miserable little quince tree…
“Do the plants talk back?” Teresita asked…
“Everything,” Huila said, “talks… Life. Life. Life. All is light. Rocks are made of light…Every rock comes from God, and God is in every rock if you look for Him.”
…Teresita asks: “Then everything is God?”
Huila said, “God is everything. Learn the difference.”
Later in the book Teresita has an amazing ability to heal, sometimes by herbs, sometimes by the touch of her hands, sometimes by the look in her eye, sometimes by words she says. The indigenous people of Mexico at that time revered her. (By the way, although this book is fiction, there was a Saint Teresa the book was based on.)
When people would praise Teresita, she was adamant that all healing came from God. This was an important point she made. The praise did not belong to her. It was irrelevant to her. It was not good for the people themselves to revere another human being. God was the healer, and that’s all there was to it.
God in Heavenletters™ has said the same thing in a variety of ways.
And just for the record, Mother Theresa said:
“I always say I am a little pencil in God’s hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing.”
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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