March 23, 2007

• Submersion & Ascension

  Ten years have passed, but the moments are still clear as day.
  
  A day when submersion and ascension were the same.
  
  When love & kindness were manifested by fellow sojourners along the way.
  
  It indeed was a happy day, to proclaim who I was and am today.
  
  Declared no longer a slave; freed from shackles and chains.
  
  For freedom is what He has claimed!
  
  Take hold of your redemption! He has paved the way!

  ---

  He ran
  thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending; and upon that place
  stood a cross, and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. So I saw
  in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden
  loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to
  tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the
  sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more.

  ...Now as
  he stood looking and weeping, behold, three Shining Ones came to him,
  and saluted him with, "Peace be to thee."

  So the first said to him,
  "Thy sins be forgiven thee,"

  the second stripped him of his
  rags, and clothed him with change of raiment,

  the third also
  set a mark on his forehead, and gave him a roll with a seal
  upon it...

  Piligrim's Progress by John Bunyan

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