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Patch stands on a cliff top, looking out over the landscape. He starts talking to God. He inquires, "What now? What do You want from me?" Patch moves toward the edge of the cliff and considers jumping. He tells God he could jump, and he knows God would not stop him. He says, "So, answer me, please. Tell me what You're doing?"
Getting no audible answer, Patch says he will look at the logic. The way he sees it, God creates a person, who lives a lifetime of pain and dies. Patch argues God should have thought out creation a bit more. He informs God, "You rested on the seventh day, maybe you should have spent that day on compassion." Again, he looks over the edge and, then, kicks a rock down the cliff. Patch, in a final act of defiance, looks up and says, "You know what? You're not worth it."
Patch turns and begins to walk to his car. He stops, when amazed to find a butterfly on his suitcase. The butterfly takes wing and lights upon his chest, near his heart. Patch reaches out his hand. The butterfly crawls onto his finger. He looks at it. He laughs. As the butterfly takes to the sky, soaring higher and higher, Patch laughs again. God has taken a small creature of beauty and spoken to his heart.
Possibly, at this moment he realizes his dear soulmate had only flown away, free. Possibly, at this moment he realizes that as she did not run away from her suffering but found true love with him, he, too, can find meaning in life again.
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