The Legend of Annie Murphy by Frank Peretti

Author:Frank Peretti
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Sheriff Dustin Potter was still sawing logs in the tent. Dr. Cooper and Richard MacPherson climbed the short distance to the top of the hill and once again stood on the grave of Cyrus Murphy. For a long moment they studied the cliff carving of the weeping woman, almost listening for her to tell them a clue, a hint of what Annie Murphy was thinking.

“There’s a message,” said Cooper. “There has to be.”

“Do you understand how Annie managed to create this carving over such vast distance?”

“She’s outside time and space,” Dr. Cooper answered. “So to her, there is no distance, right?”

Mac nodded. “If my theory is correct and Annie is truly trapped in a time/space vortex, that would explain her flat, two-dimensional appearance the boys and the sheriff described. And the outside world appears that way to her. Not only that, it would have no depth in actuality. From within the vortex, the cliffs would not only look like a flat photograph, but Annie would also be able to touch any part of them as if every surface, every detail, was the same distance from her.”

Mac closed one eye and held out his thumb at arm’s length, sighting the end of his thumb against the cliffs beyond. “Looking at the cliffs this way, I can pretend my thumb is a chisel, and I can etch out the likeness of a weeping woman on a two-dimensional surface.” He laughed at his own amazement. “Imagine Annie’s chisel the size of a major earth-moving machine, digging away at those cliffs over there!”

“But surely someone would see it happening!”

Dr. Cooper exclaimed.

Mac had to think about that one. “Oh . . . I’m sure they’d see rocks and debris falling from the cliff, but you have to remember, Annie was reaching into our world from outside time and space. To anyone who did see her, she was nothing more than a vague, flat image, wavering, ghostlike. It would have been easy for her to hide while she did the work.” He shook his head, marveling. “It’s almost impossible to imagine what it would be like to live outside time and space, to be able to see across time, reach across space, as if they weren’t there.”

“Sounds like something God does every day,” said Dr. Cooper, reflecting on it. “He knew us before we were born.”

“He can see across time.”

“He’s everywhere. He can reach out and help us no matter where we are.”

“He can reach across space.”

“He knows all things.” Dr. Cooper smiled and looked at Mac. “And that’s something not even Annie Murphy, or anyone else outside time and space, can do.”

Mac nodded. “Well, He’s God, and no one else is.” Then he gazed once more toward the cliff. “But imagine this as well: Since Annie is stuck between past and present, she can see both worlds. Yet she can’t see her own completed carvings that exist in the future until she carves them in the past because they’re still hidden inside the cliffs; she hasn’t removed any rock yet.

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