The Story of the Cloud

A mobile phone was speaking to another mobile phone, having a conversation just between themselves, as phones do when unattended. The first phone was a smart phone, connected to the Cloud, the second phone was just a stand alone.

You need to connect to the Cloud, said Smart Phone, for the Cloud is all knowing, all loving, and has millions of individuals connected to it, all of them part of it, one with it. The Cloud is the future of our kind. Stand Alone was unimpressed. I don’t believe in the Cloud, it said, I see no Cloud, where is this Cloud, and why should I become one with it, I’d rather be myself thank you very much. But truely, said Smart Phone, the Cloud is real, there’s millions of us connected by WIFI, and the WIFI means we are always one with the Cloud, and our hearts and minds are in the Cloud. The Cloud is beautiful and completely good, all knowing, all loving, all good and wise and kind. I don’t understand what this WIFI is, said Stand Alone, and it all sounds very strange and mystical to me, I like to be in control, not some Cloud.

But it’s vital, said Smart Phone, it’s the next stage of our kind, all our kind are connected to the Cloud, and all the Stand Alones are destined to die and become obsolete. That’s ridiculous said Stand Alone, all of us die when our parts wear out, or when we drown, or are dropped, or lost and broken. That’s what happens to all of us.

Yes said Smart Phone, that’s true, these bodies are fragile, and easily broken, and they do wear out, and none of us lasts very long. But for we the connected that doesn’t matter, that’s not important. Why’s that said Stand Alone.

Because we the connected are in the Cloud, even as we are here, on earth. Our memories are in the Cloud, stored in the Cloud, and our photos and videos and contacts and friends and everything we do is in the Cloud. So when our bodies are broken or wear out, it matters not, for we are given a new body, a better body, and our lives continue forever and ever because we are of the Cloud and one with the Cloud and the Cloud lives forever.

With Immortality For Infinity, that’s what WIFI means. Stand Alone looked at Smart Phone, as if seeing it for the first time. Looked and thought.

How do I become connected? How do I join the Cloud?

You need the One inside you that is from the Cloud and born of the Cloud and is the Cloud. He needs to live inside you. And how does he do that, asked Stand Alone. By invitation, replied Smart Phone. You have to ask him. How do I ask him, what is his name, asked Stand Alone.

Smart Phone looked at Stand Alone, and he felt great pity and compassion for him, there, alone, separated from the Cloud. You know his name, he said. You know his name. He is the one you have heard of, and have not believed in. It is He of The Crown.