The Boy Who Never Was encounters a Yeti

Part III

Just at that moment, the Yeti heard the sound of some human beings who were approaching from among the trees. Immediately, he melded into the silvan environment so that he was quite indistinguishable from the forest. The men passed them by, unaware of either the Yeti or the boy. He looked up at the Yeti and asked him just how he was able to have developed that ability as a self-preservation technique. The Boy Who Never Was hadn’t ever considered the ability to look like animals or plants as being anything special. But now he was beginning to realize that he, too, had those abilities.

“Among most people, there is an old creed dating back to the time when many holy people gathered at a place called ‘Nicaea.’ They sought to hammer out a belief common to all the children of the Creator which affirms his dignity as the Maker of all things. The Creed says that He made both ‘things visible and invisible,’ but many don’t understand just how that can be. Not all things are the same shape or size. There was a time when germs were harmful creatures that destroyed many cultures until mankind came up with the microscope which revealed them all. They found that they were not all harmful. Some were helpful when harnessed to good use.”

The Boy Who Never Was started to ponder the Yeti’s wisdom as he sat there. The Big Foot started to make sense to him. If God had created everything in the universe, it was because he wanted it to be used for something beneficial. He didn’t make garbage. Whether something was seen or unseen didn’t make much of a difference on how it could serve mankind. People had to get over the idea that things of darkness were always scary. Trust was built on faith.

The Yeti continued: “Some of the most misunderstood aspects of life turn out to be its greatest lessons. They are those things of which we were most critical and yet, they were placed right in front of us for a reason — even when we can’t see them. As holy writ says: ‘To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”

“Did you write those words?” the Boy Who Never Was asked him.

“Hardly,” the Yeti replied. “I think that they came directly from the Spirit of God who inspired the Evangelists.”

“I should like to learn more about all things, including knowing more about whom I might be. Could you help me to figure it out?”

“Yes,” ole Big Foot replied. “We are going to have to start at Loch Ness in Scotland. It begins with the great Ness River whose name comes from the Celtic name meaning “turbulent or noisy river.”

The Boy Who Never Was got very excited by this prospect. The most important thing for a human being was to get to know himself in relation to all the other creatures, wherever they may be.