shanbake13

Based on Matthew 26:17-56 ~ All of you will stumble because of me. Matthew 26:31 Surely not I, Lord? I, who have followed you in the good and bad and hard and easy I, who have sought to lead others in the way to see I, who have desired so deeply to be led by you in my definitions and perceptions and strategies and prayers? Others stumble and take offense, but surely I, Jesus, Won't join them there? Assuredly I say to you, you will deny me. I will die, not deny, Jesus, no, not I I will...

The pool was stagnant, and emerald green with algae, mottled dark where the tree branches bent low over the surface and cast shadows. Frogs called out in steady chorus, their rhythmic peeping becoming a drone, melting into the background itself so that, if a bystander heard anything at all, it would be the sound of the frogs going silent. But they wouldn't (go silent, that is), because even if a member of the group, having been spooked by a desperately thirsty fox, jumped into the green...

Broken shards scattered on the beach twenty miles long, brown and bottle-green sticking out of the endless sand, half-buried and...