Archangel Michael
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Dear Father of mine Our children are gathered here together before you They have each one of them humbled themselves before you They have each one of them surrendered to you They have each one of them declared their Faith in you and their allegiance to you
My dear Father Their request is simple and one They want to see their children home They want to see their children home NOW NOW Father, not in an age yet to come Not after further degradation and malformation have occurred Dear Father, again, their request is simple They want to see their children home NOW And Father they have placed their trust in you And so dear Father, after all their failed attempts They know not what to do And they turn to you Father They turn to you to show them HOW HOW do they lead their children home NOW Or perhaps they need not lead their children home Whoever leads them is fine Their only question to you Father Is HOW to get their children home NOW HOW Father HOW What do they need to do What needs to be done Please Father, answer their request They have surrendered themselves to you my Father They are no longer relying on themselves They now look to you for counsel They look to you for direction They look to you to show them HOW This migration, this ascension of their children will occur
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God
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What does it matter how it occurs So long as it does
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Archangel Michael
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Father, do you have any specific instructions for Sage and for Ruth
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God
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Yes I do Tell them to go home Tell them to place their Faith in me Tell them that they have done enough They have done their part They have done all they could Tell them to go home – not in defeat But in delightful expectation Tell them to go home and to prepare for their children’s arrival For their children will be home soon I will see to it I will raise them up I will lead their children home I the one God of the Universe I the God of their gods Will show myself to their children so that they see me And I will personally lead them to their home And yes, these children of Ruth and Sage Will recognize me Will feel relief and comfort so great As to bring them to tears And yes – simply seeing me will be as a coming home to them And yes – they will follow me wherever I will lead them And yes – I will lead them to their parent’s home
Tell Sage and Ruth to go home in peace and in Faith Their work is done They have done their part Others will pick up where they have left off And after all the others have done their preparatory work I will myself personally step in And lead these first born of my human children To their rightful place in my universe
I the God of gods have said it I the Creator of this Universe have said it I the Father of all humanity have said it
As I have said it So shall it be Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Scribe
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And Sage and Ruth look at each other in stunned silence And Sage and Ruth look at each other in wonderment Go home now and now prepare for their children’s arrival?
Their people will think they have returned in defeat When they see them without the children
They will have to explain to them That they have met and have spoken with The God of gods The Creator of this Universe The Father of all humanity
And that this God of gods Has graciously deigned to himself bring their children home
And that they are to immediately begin the preparatory work To properly receive their children To properly welcome them To properly re-introduce them to their family And to gently re-introduce them to who they are
Sage and Ruth are stunned Can it possibly be?
Ruth states
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Ruth
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Either we believe in this God or we don’t Either we do as he has told us to do Or we continue age after age Failure after failure Continue watching as our children descend into monsters We have thrown our lot in with this God Let us prove our selves Let us prove our Faith Let us go home and joyfully and in full expectancy prepare for our children’s arrival Let us go and fully obey this God For if we do as he has told us to do Then he surely will do what he has told us he will do He will keep his word this God I like his voice I recognize his voice From long ago I recognize this voice It is the voice of a great god Of this I am sure Of this I am certain Of this I somehow know
That is my position Sage my dear husband, what is yours?
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Sage
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We can always come back I can always come back Let us do as this God has said Let us try And let us look for the arrival of our children
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Scribe
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Sage is trying to maintain Can it possibly be that this long, long exile is over Can it possibly be that his children will be rescued From this planet which deteriorates by the hour Can the miracle which he has spent so long working for That it felt he would simply spend an eternity or two or three Waiting for Where it felt that he almost had lost hope of actually seeing successful result He was merely focused on the effort And felt that the effort would last forever And that there would be only the effort
Can it possibly be true that the effort is over Can it possibly be true that success is at hand Can it possibly be true That the remainder of his people will be brought home to their own
Sage continues to sit in silence The effort to not completely break down in convulsions and sobbing is great He holds himself ever more sternly and stiffly
He looks at his wife
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Sage
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Caritas, you who love our children with your whole being You who would not abandon them even if it meant your death I defer to your judgment Are you sure of this? Please consider this carefully For truly I do not think that once I have left That I will have the stomach to return Think carefully upon this And whatever you decide, I will abide by
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Ruth
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My dear husband I tell you that I recognize this God’s voice I remember it When I was formed in my mother’s womb I heard his voice He is the God of our gods He is our Father I know because I recognize his voice My body recognizes him The cells of my being recognize him They recognize him and they sing his praise They sing his praise my dear husband They sing his praise!
Surely that should tell us something
My dear husband We must now prove ourselves This is the hour of our testing Do we believe in the God of our gods Or do we not
We must prove ourselves to this God We must prove our Faith in this God We must abandon our children, not in despair and in defeat But in the knowledge, in the certainty That this God will do as he has promised And he will by the hand Bring our children home to us He will deliver them into our hands He will accompany them from this place He will personally accompany them And he will personally lead them Until he delivers them unto our hands, unto our care
My dear husband Let us not in our pride, fail our children This is their chance, I can feel it in my bones Let us abandon them and ironically by doing so let us save them Let us not think ourselves greater than this God Let us not think that our children can see or hear us or follow us More easily Than they can see, hear, and follow this God For dear husband, it is not about us It is about our children And if this God can rescue them And he says he can And he is a true God – I know this – and therefore cannot lie Then let us place our children into his care Let us place our Faith in this God of gods And let us do as he has told us Let us prove ourselves Let us pass this test For I recognize it to be a test Let us successfully pass this test for our children And go home and prepare Let us go home now my dear husband Let us say goodbye to Michael And yes let us say goodbye to this girl And let us go home as the God has told us Go home and prepare for our children’s homecoming
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Scribe
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I sit in silence and lock my eyes onto Michael’s He raises his forefinger to his lips – hush
A long moment passes
Then Sage stands up a little dazed And then Ruth stands up with quiet assurance
And they make move to walk off But Ruth stops Sage and reminds him that they need to say good bye
And they turn to me
And Sage takes my face in his large hand and caresses it And says
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Sage
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Thank you little one I truly do not know what your role was in this But you participated and I thank you
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Scribe
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And he places a hand on each side of my face And kisses me on the forehead He straightens up
And Ruth steps forward And she takes my hands and she kisses them
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Ruth
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It was your hands wasn’t it Somehow it was your hands that have helped us And I bless your hands I bless them forever May they always be of use May your hands always be of service Thank you for your hands
Forgive our roughness with you Please forgive us And know that we both thank you from the bottom of our hearts
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Scribe
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And then she reaches over and kisses me on both sides of my face
And they turn in place to face Michael And they communicate silently to him
They are communicating their deep love and their deep gratitude to him They thank him forever They tell him that he is always welcome in their home And will be treated with the great honor that is befitting a being such as himself A being who deigned to help him and their people A being who succeeded! Yes, they will speak of him to their children and to their children’s children And he will always have a warm and joyful reception on their planet And he is welcome to visit at any time And he is also welcome to walk among them for as long as he should desire to do so It would be their great honor to have him in their midst For they recognize him to be a man of God And their thanks to him will last throughout the generations His name will be known to their people until the end of time
And then they bow down from the waist before him And they remain so for a long, very long moment
And Michael steps forward and straightens Sage up and embraces him And they stand there together in an embrace for a long moment The love and the gratitude is so great I can feel it from where I am sitting The depth of it inspires awe
And then Michael steps over to Ruth and embraces her And he gently murmurs to her words of affection and praise He congratulates her on her success For truly she has succeeded She, the matriarch, has saved her children Congratulations Ruth Ruth is radiant She is standing straight, in perfect health She now appears to be about 30 and she is beautiful Their embrace continues and continues Ruth does not want to let go of Michael And it would seem that Michael does not want to let go of Ruth For the Faith that Ruth has just demonstrated is rare indeed And finally Michael steps back And silently communicates to them that he will visit with them Once their children have had a chance to adjust to their new home He will visit with them then, for then they will be more free to receive him And he is looking forward to this visit He is looking forward to spending time with these beautiful, noble, faithful people
And then Sage and Ruth walk off up and right Off the scene
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