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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: START (02/25/16)
The Son was leaving home to start a new life. In fact, He was leaving to start a new way. The price for the venture was exorbitant, but the cost had been counted and approved. Every jot and tittle of the intricate plan was in place and ready to be fulfilled. The way had been prepared. The time was now.

Rising from His place of honor, the Son removed His crown along with His credentials, and positioned them on the footstool. He carefully folded up His robe and His reputation and laid them on the right arm of His throne. No one would disturb His royal array while He was away.

Pausing, He turned to His Father Who had been watching in silence. Their eyes met briefly. No words were needed. Drinking in one last gaze of His majestic surroundings, the Son walked from the room, through the stately passageway, and out of His Father's house.

He continued beyond the dwelling of light, until He reached the edge of eternity. There, He stopped to compress Himself into the designated clay garb, common and unadorned. Then, closing His eyes to the familiar, He stepped off the ledge into time.

As He drew His first breath, the stench of flesh filled His nostrils. His eyes struggled to adjust to the thick cloud of darkness engulfing Him. Yet, there was peace as He became aware of His Father's heart throbbing in His tiny chest. It was a new birth, a new life, a new beginning, offered to us all.

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Member Comments
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Date
Bonnie Bowden 
03/03/16
Very powerful description. You said so much in so few words.
Pat Small
03/04/16
Beautiful! I loved it.
Lisa Hudson
03/05/16
I absolutely love this. Thank you!
C D Swanson 
03/05/16
Simply fabulous and an incredible read!

Blessings~
Bonnie Bowden 
03/10/16
Congratulations, JE, on placing 2nd place in the Advanced category. Your piece had a very poetic quality.
Bonnie Bowden 
03/10/16
Congratulations, JE, for placing 7th place overall. That's quite an achievement.
Loni Bowden-Horn 
03/10/16
JE - This was a thought provoking piece. I liked your perspective and out of the box thinking.

Congratulations on your EC Award. Well deserved.
C D Swanson 
03/11/16
Congrats!
Blessings~
Anne Warden 
05/26/16
Lea, this is exactly the type of creative out-of-the-box writing I like to read. By the beginning of the second paragraph, I had tears in my eyes and was anticipating HOW your words would take the Son from eternity to earth.

Though I [personally] would love to see this in a longer article, the way you kept it brief and ended it so succinctly -- with the true message in the final sentence -- is superb.

Your word picture choices made me smile:
-- He 'folded up ... His reputation'
-- He stopped to 'compress' Himself into the designated clay garb, 'common and unadorned'
-- He stepped off the ledge into 'time'
-- the 'stench' of flesh