In that Day

And in that day the traveler stood before the God he faithfully served all his days to find that his throne was not made of gold and precious jewels, but of ordinary glass and stone. And when the traveler asked the Lord, “how is it that you sit on a throne of common stone and glass”, the lord replied to him “You believed gold and jewels to be precious just as you believed my throne to be made of common materials”.

At that moment the scales of mortality fell from his eyes revealing pure love, and he wept before the God he tried to faithfully serve all his life. And with this understanding he too saw the truth of the materials. Glass became the crystallized tears of those that suffered in the name of his love. The stones transformed, revealing the petrified burdens of all men and women, faithful or not.

The traveler knew that in his mortiferous beliefs, he had caused some of those tears and laid some of those burdens on the shoulders of both believer and non-believer. His heart broke in the knowledge that he was not blameless before the God he desired to serve and failed so terribly. The strength of his pride folded under the weight of his deficit and tears of sorrow fell from the traveler's cheeks.

“May I have those burdens?” asked the Lord. And with that question, the traveler found new strength. He lifted his head to witness his tears being added to the throne. He saw his burdens become of stone filigree. And, the traveler understood that he would never have to travel again. He knew that he was home.