The Road to Love
“He’d hoped this moment wouldn’t come. He knew better. He never allowed himself get close to people. It carried too many risks.
This time saying goodbye would hurt even worse than his father’s goodbye.
Yet knowing that, he’d spent the afternoon in the luxury of feeling things, thinking things, wishing things that could never be his.
It was time to accept the inevitable; he was destined to be a wanderer and a vagabond.
The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: because they hav...e not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath…he continued reciting the passage until he reached the verse that seared his brain. He made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone. Numbers thirty two, verses eleven through thirteen.
His desert included the ocean, the mountains and the parched prairie.
And for a few days, this oasis of longing and belonging, hope and despair.MoreLess
This time saying goodbye would hurt even worse than his father’s goodbye.
Yet knowing that, he’d spent the afternoon in the luxury of feeling things, thinking things, wishing things that could never be his.
It was time to accept the inevitable; he was destined to be a wanderer and a vagabond.
The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: because they hav...e not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath…he continued reciting the passage until he reached the verse that seared his brain. He made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone. Numbers thirty two, verses eleven through thirteen.
His desert included the ocean, the mountains and the parched prairie.
And for a few days, this oasis of longing and belonging, hope and despair.MoreLess
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