One (A One Page Story)

The wind tugged at her soul, beckoning the woman to hear the quiet whisper of the Voice through the tempestuous clouds above her.  The moist salt air kissed her weary face as she leaned forward on the cliff’s rocky edge.  Tears surfaced for the first time in her life and tiny opalescent droplets spilled into the palm of her hand–showing her the face of Truth.

“Now, release your tears upon the sea and you will be a part of this world as never before…” echoed the Voice in the wind.

Without fear, the woman trusted the Voice and in releasing her tears she also freed her spirit, her bare feet firmly holding on to the coarse rocks.  She watched her spirit take shape to her likeness.  Time seemed frozen while she observed her tear-filled soul experience life and death, falling through time and space; happiness and sadness; pain and joy.  She continued to fall into this abyss when suddenly a soft, white, fluttering veil caressed her spirit and the woman understood what Love and Trust meant–for the first time.

“All you need is One.” Urged the Voice as time rapidly ebbed away.  The woman’s soul found strength and reached out to the faint whisper of her angel, smiling as she pulled one small feather from the angel’s wing–slipping it into the tattered pocket of her gown.

Cradled in the wings of Heaven, the woman, along with her spirit, returned to her world, now safe and Knowing.

She had been saved, over and over and over again.