The Crux of Salvation by Michelle Warren

Author:Michelle Warren [Warren, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: friendship, spiritual, psychological, Contemporary, futuristic, christian fiction, family conflict, travel fiction, suspense ebook, action fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR: A Response

John Robertson stood in Saint Peter’s Cathedral. The church was quiet. He looked up from the central aisle to the red, green and blue of the stained glass windows above. Christ was feeding the masses. Peter and the others were in the boat with Christ, surrounded by the storm. Paul was being blinded by the light…

John lowered his eyes to look at Jesus on the cross, with the crown of thorns on his head. He remembered Joshua, kneeling in the street between the Cathedral and Parliament, wearing the ancient metal crown on his head. He was drawing all darkness to himself, carrying it into the grave so that others might be relieved of it.

John remembered the pain of the offering! The pain of Tristan’s bullets, throwing Joshua’s body back to the ground. He was choking! And yet then came the peace of the realisation of that offering. “It’s finished,” he said to Rachel, with a smile. “It’s sorted!”

Death had taken him…and then he had returned.

John still remembered that morning, replaying it in his mind. He was lying against the white stone wall next to the church, dozing at Joshua’s grave, and then a voice was calling him, and hands were shaking him. It was Joshua, in front of him! His smile! Surely a dream! Surely his deepest desire! But then Joshua drew his hands to the bullet holes in his own chest, and Rau appeared, seeing him too.

Now John wandered forward to the altar, reaching out his fingers to touch the white linen, the silver chalice of wine, and the silver plate of wafers. This was the body and blood of Christ – the one offering, to carry the darkness of the world into the grave and to overcome it, so that all might be given the chance to truly live.

He fleetingly closed his eyes. “Have your way,” he prayed. “You are the Master of everything good. Have your way.”

He went down to his knees, pressing his head to the wood of the altar, offering himself in return, and peace filled him; peace, and love. He smiled into the altar. Then he lifted himself to his feet, and turned.

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