The Leap

~ when we can see nothing there

A, verbatim, script from a movie .....

  (cited in the Opening Mass of the 2001 Walsingham Conference)

 

He stands in a small opening,
just small enough for his shoulders to squeeze through
and beyond that a 100 foot drop to the rocks below and 100 feet across,
nothing but a rough, stony cliff wall. He can see nowhere to cross.

 He looks again to the diary and reads,
"Only in the leap from the lion's head will he prove his worth."
He notices that inscribed into the rock above his head is the head of a lion, and thinks

"Impossible! Nobody can jump this!"

He looks down into the diary and tortures over what it is asking him to do.

and realizes "It's... a leap of faith. Oh, God".

His father calls to his son,

"You must believe, boy. You must... believe."

We see him do it. We see him leap into space.

We see that he is in midair.

We see that he is not going to make it.

His hands claw for the opposite wall but he is going to fall 100 feet to his death.

And then ..... he doesn't!

He appears to be held up by thin air as he lands on his hands and knees.

He looks around and down and now he figures it out,

He has been supported by a bridge,

It was always there …..

He just couldn't see it.

 

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  "What does faith give us?
It gives us strength and that's important."
Tony Blair

 

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