| Finding the Way |
Chapter 6 |
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But the angel answered very low: “It does not hold. In the domain of death all these bonds of which thou speakest crumble to nothing. The very shape of them has departed, so that they are as if they never were. Think yet once more, I pray thee, before I leave thee, if there is one thread to bind thee to him whom thou lovest; for if not, he has passed from thee forever.”
The woman was silent, but she cried to herself desperately: “He shall not go from me!” The angel withdrew a little way, and the woman thought and thought, with deep inward communing, and after a space she raised her face, and said: “Once – but it was long ago – he and I thought of God together.”
The angel gave a loud cry, and his shining wings smote the earth, and he said: “Thou hast found the bond! Thou has found the bond!”
The woman looked, and lo! There lay in her hand a tiny thread, faintly golden, as if woven from the strands of the sunlight, and it led into the darkness.
A truth is taught in this story – only those who think of God together have between them a bond of union which death cannot sever. The only tie which never shall be broken is love for Christ. Those whom this sacred bond unites never shall be separated. If this love is not in us, there is nothing in our lives which will endure; all else will perish.
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