The Visit in the Sandstorm

Stranded in a sandstorm, a voice speaks to a woman.

Written: 07/22/2011 9:13 pm

Alone in the desert sand I sit contemplating my fate. Oasis so close but yet so far away. I looked up at the hot orb and cried out.

"God where are you? Why have you abandoned me in my hour of need?"

There was no reply and instead a storm approached it gusted and swirled. Everything was a mess of sand and wind.

Shielding my eyes I cried again, "God where are you in my hour of need? Why have you abandoned me?"

In the storm I saw nothing as it closed in on me. Swallowing my vision.

Hoarsely I cried, "God you betray me and would let me die?"

I screamed but my voice faded as the wind and sand throttled my voice and my body.

I curled into a ball and closed my eyes. It felt as if a mere hour was days. Losing my strength, I thought to myself, "I am going to die out here. Alone and unremembered. No love. My greatest regret is having no love. No one to care for me."

Suddenly in the faint wind I heard a voice. I couldn't be sure but it was love.

I thought love was real but its not. It abandoned me. I am alone. I will die alone.

The voice I heard again said "Spirit"

What good is that? I thought.

The voice spoke again, "Believe."

I asked "In what?"

The winds and the sand continued until I fainted.

In the early hours of morning a loud shout erupted nearby and I startled awake.

"Who?" I cried.

Before me was a man standing over me.

"What are you doing out here? You are lucky to be alive you know that right?"

I replied. "What?"

"The storm..." The man pointed to around him. "Took out a town not far from here."

I replied. "What are you doing here?"

The man crinkled his forehead. "You were very close to my town. Your lucky I was making a check of the area."

He helped me to my feet and we entered the town but not before I looked up at the sun, its bright orb fierce as ever. 

I thought, "So I'm a alive?"

That day I realized I was being tested and from that day forward I vowed to believe, to love and to trust with all my heart.