After the fall, the silence. The
silence of empty air, empty promises. We are simply scattered ashes in the
vacuum of his absence. Waiting for we know not what.
Has it been three hours? Three
days? Three years?
Then, the echo of distant
matter. The rumble of some new reality. Is this the bottom of the chasm? Is
this death come to swallow us up too?
But what our blinded eyes
struggle to see, our faces and fingers begin to feel. Water. Falling with us. The
spray becomes a stream, and we are soaked but not submerged. We are landing, if
such a term could be used, in a river running downward.
And suddenly, rising up from
below us, a figure emerges, as if from an underground spring. We thought we
left him at the top, but here he comes, racing up from the depths with the glint
of triumph in his eyes, grabbing hold of these trembling hands with the grip of
life, and he has caught us. The river
explodes around us and for the first time since we fell we can fill our lungs
because he is alive and that is the
only air we can breathe. He is alive
and those are the only words that matter.
The river carries us all with
a rushing buoyancy, and we know that this descent has somehow saved us, because
it somehow killed us, but he has brought us back to life.
*for Calvary Church
~lg
