Chapter 28 (Excerpt from The Wild Christ Nobody Owns, a novel by Blake Steele) Rachael And The Trout Age 15 “My name is Rachael. I’m from Chorazin. I know who you are,” she said quietly. “Some say you are mad, others a young teacher that we should listen to someday.” “And you, what do you think?” “I would like to know for myself. What were you just doing? You seemed as silent as stone. Where you away in other worlds?” “No…” Jesus smiled. “I was simply listening. Sound is such a mystery. It carries a great power when you listen so carefully that you become it.” “I listen too. I love the sound of the wind in tree leaves and how it sings in harmony with the bleats and bells of my sheep.” “You are beautiful,” Jesus said softly. “Your eyes are those of a child, but your body of a woman. Have you been given to a man?” “No, not yet. My parents are waiting to see if they can marry me to the son of a potter in Bethsaida. I know who he is, but we have never spoken. I hear he is a good boy, handsome and kind.” “Why haven’t you spoken with him yet?” “Because it is not proper. Perhaps he would think I am not a virtuous young woman if I spoke freely with every young man.” “And yet, you have come to me freely and we speak even now.” “Yes, but we are alone and only the eyes of the sheep are on us.” “No, the eyes of Alaha are here.” “And how can this be?” “All of Life is in Alaha. There are many worlds, right here, within this world we see and hear. We are his living dream.” “A dream that speaks and feels and thinks for itself? Such a mystery,” she said. “Yes, such a mystery. All Alaha makes is free with its own life and chooses its own ways.” “And what about our bodies? Does Alaha watch us in the night when we disrobe?” Jesus laughed. “You are not as shy as you appear.” She blushed. “But this is a good thing you ask. To ask questions about everything is the path of knowing truth for yourself. The eyes of Alaha that see all things are innocent. They are laughing eyes and loving eyes. In the eyes of Alaha everything is beautiful.” “How do you know this? Who told you such things?” “If we listen deeply enough we may pass into the silence of the secret Listener, and there, in that silence, find a purity of being that makes the world shine with Light and laugh with Love. We know the eyes of Alaha when we glimpse his Light through them, even as Alaha looks out through us upon his world.”
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