Chapter Thirty-Four: What's left behind

As a soldier and medic, I've witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I'd long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

"Why must the innocent suffer most of all?"

I didn't know to even hope for an answer.

Yet, the answer surely came.

"They need not to suffer as they do."

A voice unlike any other.

I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow,

Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

"Read aloud."

Before me is an open book and I begin.

She is the most profound place of tranquil repose at the very core; the Sovereign Axis upon which life turns. She is that light which leads through darkness, nurturing with gentle ease. She is the Living Source of all upon the earth and far beyond. In Her, existence