Jane looks at the book in her hands. Her finger trembles as she turns another page. The title of the book is “Jane”, and it tells her story, it is her autobiography. It accurately describes every little detail about her life since the day she was born until the day her life on earth ends.
She has started reading from Chapter 1 and finally, only the last chapter remains, but now suddenly she discovers that most of the last chapter consists of blank pages.
She wants to read a lot more but the book seems so very thin. She quickly pages to the very end to see if anything more was written down, but only blank pages stare back at her until the very last page which has bold letters written across the middle in someone else’s handwriting – The End.
“Why is the last chapter still incomplete, Lord?” Jane asks.
“Because this is your life, Jane, and you are still alive, meaning that you are still busy writing your last chapter.”
“What would happen if I don’t want to live another page, and stop writing today, Lord?” She asks Jesus.
“Nothing much, Jane, except that the last chapter would not be sweet, only very, very short with the following words, ‘Today Jane quit life and stopped writing’ – The End.”
“Lord, You make it sound as if my life depends only on me.”
“Ah, but indeed it does depend on you, Jane. I am not writing your book, you are. All I do is to clean the dirty pages and mend those that you tore, and of course, to keep the ink flowing from your pen. I also guide you with possible material for your next page, but… only if you ask Me to.”
“If you look closely, you will find that the first blank page is the rest of today. Decide what you want to do, how you want to do it and then start writing.”
“The end would follow after this chapter but remember that this might well be the longest chapter of them all, the most beautiful one of the entire book. You also have to decide if I would be the leading Character in this chapter or not.”
“Whatever you decide, this chapter would determine whether this book will be your best seller. Just make sure that you don’t write Me out, I love you too much to accept that.”
“Keep on writing! So far, I love the book because I love you!”