Lord Jesus Christ
|
Close your eyes
Look and follow my lead
|
Scribe
|
Yes my Lord Thank you
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
What do you see
|
Scribe
|
Your eyes
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Remain
What do you see
|
Scribe
|
Calm acceptance
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Remain
What do you see
|
Scribe
|
You stepping backward The scope of what I see expanding Your arms outstretched to encompass the expansion
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Good. Remain
And what are you seeing
|
Scribe
|
A sunlit field of green grass And you standing with your arms outstretched Almost as if on the cross – but not Telling me to look, to look But all I see is an empty field of green grass – sunlit You There is the dense forest behind you It is dark there You are stepping backward ever closer toward the dense forest There are trees
Oh dear Lord You are stepping into the forest Walking backward still Still your arms outstretched Still looking at me Still smiling – almost grinning
I don’t want you to go into the forest
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Don’t want nor don’t don’t want Just look and see Keep looking anticipate nothing For nothing more may happen Just look
|
Scribe
|
You are stepping forward out of the forest With a young person on each arm You are stepping forward – almost as if your arms are branches And they are sitting on them And you are bringing them out into the light Into the green field
And now you do this Many times, repeatedly, blindingly fast And now the field is full of children, young people, young adults, old people Each blade of grass replaced by a person – almost
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Yes – almost For there are still many empty patches are there not
Holes between people Holes where you can see grass Grass upon which a human should be standing but is not He or she is not there They are still in the forest
There are many, many such holes There are many, many such souls
Now, look some more Look and see
|
Scribe
|
You are stepping backward into the forest again The people on the field are looking at you But they are as in a daze And you are tired
And there are many souls left to bring out of the forest And you are tired
And there are so many places they could be in It is hard to find them all It is hard to even know where to look
For they are hiding For they are afraid
Why they are afraid of you!
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Why, tell me, why are they afraid of me
|
Scribe
|
Because they had not acknowledged you before Because they have been taught that they are sinful They are ashamed
Or they feel that you would not approve of them
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
And then dear one what is your conclusion
|
Scribe
|
That others must lead them out of the forest Others who do not frighten them
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Exactly! Exactly so! Others who do not frighten them
And a little child shall lead them
For who is less threatening than a little child What could possibly be less threatening to anyone than a little girl
And so it is And so it shall be
A little child shall lead them For they will not be afraid of this little child It will not occur to them to be afraid of her For this child will look at them with the same look of calm acceptance That you earlier saw in me
She will have learned that look from me And she will look so at those remaining She will look at them with calm acceptance
And they will see a little girl And will feel confident to follow that little girl out of the forest
There will be no shame in them They will follow her easily
For if she a mere little girl can do it Certainly they can!
And so they do! And so they do
And now dear one If you have the strength May we continue?
|
Scribe
|
Please Lord give me the strength Yes Lord please, please continue
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Look at the little girl What is she doing?
|
Scribe
|
She is skipping about She is jumping rope She is playing in the forest She is seeing the butterflies and the fairies The forest is an enchanting wonderful place for her She sees the gnomes and the elves She sees all
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Yes she even sees the humans doesn’t she
|
Scribe
|
Yes she does
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
And what does she do when she sees the humans?
|
Scribe
|
She takes them by the hand and coos over them It is almost like a little girl playing with her dolls She gently leads them forward Out of their hiding place And she holds their hand And they are bewildered But they see that this little girl is healthy and well dressed And obviously well cared for So they will follow her to her home For perhaps they will find refuge there And so they allow the little girl to take them by the hand And lead them Lead them
She skips about the forest this little girl She does not come straight out to the meadow But skips about the forest Finding one person here Another person there Until finally she has a whole dazed, bewildered group following her And they follow her for truly they know not what else to do
And finally the girl brings the group to the edge of the forest The edge where the forest meets the field And the people in the group clutch at the trees and gaze out at the field And the people in the field gaze blankly back at the people in the forest
Truly it seems that most of the people in the field are in shock Completely out of it as it were One or two stirs but most remain standing still Still as statues
And the people leave the trees they are clutching And huddle together as a group And discuss among themselves
What do we do? We don’t want to go out there and be zombies like the people in the field But the forest is not safe either And where did the little girl go off to
For the little girl has gone off in search of more people to find And bring back to the edge of the forest For she knows that no one will leave the edge No one will leave the edge once they arrive at it
And the cycle repeats itself
The little girl bringing people to the edge of the forest The people clutching the trees Then huddling in groups
And more people arriving Clutching at the trees And then huddling in groups conferring but getting nowhere with their thoughts Reaching no conclusion, no course of action to follow They know not the next step
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
Don’t they
|
Scribe
|
Yes they do The little girl firmly tells them
Wait right here And my father will come and get you and take you to his house And you will be safe I promise you Just wait right here
And the girl looks so well cared for Obviously prosperous Obviously the daughter of a very wealthy man indeed Someone who maybe could guide them And so they wait
|
Lord Jesus Christ
|
And then what happens
|
Scribe
|
And then the spaceships arrive And the people in the field immediately levitate upward Straight up into the ships
And then the little girl goes running out into the field And waves at them ‘bye-bye’ ‘Bye-bye’ she continues waving and looking up Until the ships can no longer be seen
And then she very firmly and authoritatively Takes each person at the edge of the forest by the hand And leads them to their spot
And they are dazed and they allow her to do so It is almost as if they have been hypnotized by the sight of the ships They are not as they were before
Now they are as the people in the fields were And they are easily led
And the girl puts each one in his or her proper spot So that they will ascend to the proper porthole in the next ship That will come for them
And now the little girl is alone in the field And she is sitting down and she is tired
And the Christ comes walking toward her And she jumps up and runs toward him All tiredness forgotten And leaps up into his arms And he carries her home And the little girl falls asleep in her Rabboni’s arms Happily tired For she knows that she has helped She has helped She has helped her Lord She has helped her Rabboni
And now he is holding her And now he is carrying her And now she can rest And the little girl is happy So, so happy
She snuggles up to her Lord’s neck And scolds him
You took your time coming to get me! I was waiting and waiting and waiting What took you so long I was all by myself!
And the Lord coos at her and strokes her hair And whispers to her
Hush Caritas, I had much work to do And I knew you’d be safe in the field I knew you would be safe and that you would wait for me And my child, I came back for you at the first possible moment The very first possible moment that I had I came for you For I would not leave my darling daughter behind all by herself No I would not
I knew you trusted me And I knew you would wait for me And I knew you would not wander off But would wait for me to come get you just as I told you I would And now I am here dear one Now I am here And it wasn’t too long a wait was it caritas?
I shouldn’t have had to wait at all The child replied petulantly
But she is glad to be going home in the Lord’s arms And not on one of those ships
No, the wait was worth it And she snuggles up closer to her Rabboni
I’m glad you came back, she whispers to him
I’m glad you came back I knew you would I all along knew you would For you told me you would And I knew you would keep your word
For you are the Lord Jesus Christ You are the Creator Son of God You are the Word of God And the Word of God keeps his Word
|