The Young Man

“There was a young man who existed on a stage in the theatre. And was meant to play the lead role. According to the cast members and crew but the young man wanted to play backstage and orchestrate and pull the strings backstage, and doing a good job while in that darkness, not to be seen or heard. The young man feeling so exhausted and tired that keeps to himself saying things like “ I have to do this!, I have to do this!” .. “I don’t want to play the lead role!” The cast members push and pursue and say to the young man “It’s either you do it or you die!” The young man turns his back on his crew and cast members and walks away and ends up going deeper and deeper into the Abyss, descending into darkness. While trying to light his fire in his cave with rocks years after years he begins to climb up the staircase in the theatre to the higher ground and finds an angel. The angel asks the young man “what did you fight for to come here?” “Do you believe in Creation at all?” “Do you believe in what the hands of God can do?” “And finally what do you make of the healing touch of your hands?” The young man responded “I fight for freedom to break the chains of bondage; I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe in Creation, Hands of God creates life again and again and I choose for my hands to heal my own life”

-Ryan Emmerson