THE LIGHT BEARER:
The sun had been down going on 21 days now. A darkness unbearable even to the creatures of the night. As amazing as it sounds, it is quite the opposite. The sun metaphoric for the light that had once been inside of 30 year old Andrew’s life. But she was gone now. 1300 miles away. And here he was covered by dark clouds that brought nothing but storms into his life. Trapped inside the tornado ripping apart everything in sight until all that was left was nothing. When it rains…it pours… Not just isolated thunderstorms bringing out nothing but a light sprinkle…no.
These storms were destructive. The clouds attracted to Andrew like he was some kind of magnetic field pulling in all the negative, and harmful thunderclaps and lightning strikes. To everyone else in Apache County, Mother Nature was providing a comfortable weather full of sunshine and blue skies. But much like his very own mother, Mother Nature despised him. Rejected him. Was out to destroy him. How can women have so much of a destructive impact on one’s life? Living in the dark for so long, anytime a good woman came into poor old Andrew’s life…he’d just push them away. Because something so good and beautiful and healthy for him seemed nothing more than a fairytale.
The women of his past all presented themselves as a perfect little lamb when they first came into his life. Without blemish. Pure and holy. And hed be damned if he allowed himself to fall into that deceptive lie again. So here he sat. Alone in the dark. Searching for the light at the end of the tunnel when there were none in sight. Not a single fluorescent glow peeping through any crack of the night. It was dark. It was scary. It was unbearable. A darkness darker than anything hed ever seen in his life.
Now he was walking blind. On a journey. A journey to find a way out of the dark. Someone, somewhere, would be the light bearer he’d been searching for for so long. A carrier of hope when all hope seemed gone. Somehow, someway, he was determined to find them. The worst part about the darkness, is that light bearer could be right in front of him…but he’s surrounded himself with darkness that would prevent him from seeing them. But he continues searching. Theres still hope. There always is.