Let Go Of Our Painful Past—Part 1
Hero was afraid.
He watched the Ranger hold a burning torch to the ring of stones that circled the place of the Great Celebration. The Sacred Flames ignited with a w-o-o-0-0-0-SH, lifting the hems of the blue robes of the protectors of Great Park, who stood as sentries around Inmost Circle. The silver insignia of the Rangers caught the light and flashed in the outer circle around the rim of fire.
Tonight he would leave these friends, leave Mercie and Caretaker, leave these woods, these dear fields, leave everything in the world he had come to love. Well, almost everything, he reminded himself: What he loved most in the world was the King and to be a King’s man and to do the King’s work.
And the voice of that King, the most beautiful of men, had spoken inwardly only this morning: It is time. It is time to begin the restoration of the Kingdom. I need a King’s man with a hero’s heart. Will you come?
This is how my wife, Karen, and I begin the Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Tales of the Resistance. It’s written for children of all ages to enjoy. I’ll use sections from these tales to develop the themes of the chapters which follow in this book I’m turning into blog posts.
Far off, Ranger horns sounded from the watchtowers that guarded Deepest Forest. Croi-croi! Come-come!Croi-Croi! Come to Inmost Circle! Come to the solemn assembly!
Hero watched as the people he loved made entrance, passed through the Sacred Flames and became real. He watched Amanda step into the fire a ragtag tomboy and step out a beautiful, graceful princess. He watched the unhappy woman who had been the orphan keeper’s assistant become someone with a mother’s smile for all the children, who ran to hug her. He saw Caretaker become Ranger Commander.
How can I ever go? thought Hero. How can I leave all this? But he had heard the voice of his King: Come, Hero. It is time. And he knew he must go.
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