Meeting God's Steward

The Heavens were his ultimate guide. The sights of regal sensations to behold, where shooting stars did lay the handles to his compass; no bearings required; no destination but to where his path did go; the haven stood in each of his steps.

The journey moved through the valleys of home, of what he had always known. Regions of the unknown; of places unwent; unfamiliar larks in the morns; pastures of odd flowers and dews; the wafting plains bending with his traveling wind; the marvels of something new; of stars and moons and suns that dove and rose by some silent commandments; animals never seen in watch of him as he passed; the places conjured not by imagination, but Heaven's own.

To the mountain realms he stood; the infinite sights of glory, nature's mansions, long trees and spacious roams; no shadows lay. The Son of God did guide the beauty displayed for him – a reminder to the power of His glory. Coves that led to high waters and looping knolls rumbling through the seas as post-points to look about with.

The mammoth clutches to the skies where the forest beds did he go; the seismic canopies above were like umbrellas cast in greens, browns, yellows and blues. The spindle nature of what was made was certainly spun by God's gracious tailoring. The largest trunks ever conceived stood round like pillars & supreme columns; they too seemed to hold the sky up; no fallings made; the plays of birds who managed to navigate through.

Here, in one delay, Daniel felt the handles of a hawk's talon to clutch his back; settle here and stare into his stare. His smile caused the hawk to tilt his head to and fro, gawk and yell, and fly off to some other branch or perch. The grounds were of pine needles and cushioned those floors akin to pillows under his walk. The time spent not realized and correctly measured. Daniel, in all his truest worth, did as he was told; he went.

The markings led him by the bay upon a clutch of trees; the pathway already driven into and seemingly used by other travelers before his'. He walked in steady pace, finding just beyond this particular cove a settlement simply placed. The house had no extremes; no mansions it appeared to make; but simple, quaint and kind to the view.

Angels were in walk nearby and cutting towards this home as if in mischief and curt design. Their swords drawn about and free to the clutch, so in finding a bird's nest grounded next to this place. The birds within cried out by their distress; haunting with as much leverage as they could impose to these youngest of angels. Still, there was no delay in them; only curious banter and frolic stabs round about to intrude on the hatches without welcome. They rattled the noise to produce more high shrills and they cackled laughter that caused some ire commotion. Someone within from this humbled home stirred about, angered in sorts and fits.

"Stand there!" Daniel heard a voice grow from within to without, "Give providence to some peace! Look you here; your disturbance abates me into a quarrel with you… Cast out your action on other plains. Angels are badly mistaken to perform such disarray!"

An elder man came forth; white-haired in all, with graceful countenance and prudent stares. He had not a liking to what so these youngest angels desired to transact.

"Be gone, I say," he spouted, "For one more word makes it a commandment! No truce lies here! Be gone or else your elders will know your shortfalls!"

They drew to snickers and quiet laughter once more, though moved about to do the things asked upon them; to disappear over the long hedges.

"What say you?!" The statesman looked out over on Daniel, "Are you one of them?!"

"I say nothing to the matter," Daniel denied, "I know nothing to their agency…"

"Good then," he approved, "I know well to that point! But to confide that you knew the same…" There was a strict pause between them.

"Well?"

"Well…" Daniel felt awkward to speak, "To what purpose?"

"You have come!"

"Only by wayward travels…" Daniel spoke out, "is all…"

"A mindless destination," he laughed abruptly, "To know no purpose! You come for reason to approach me with…"

"I know not, for what, then," Daniel seemed agitated by the statesman's insistence, "I shall pass much the same; in quiet non-disturbance, and not to make you tardy on your plans…" Daniel began to lead away.

"Then come in…" he advised.

"I do not dissuade," Daniel quickly responded, "If I leave, this gives you no formal delays… Act as you wish; I have not the presence to deter you."

"But to the disrespect," he smiled, "By your absence, there becomes great halt in delay… Daniel…" the statesman smiled more broadly.

"You are familiar to my name?"

"Of certain," he paused, "The registry is already set. The will instills you to enter… Come; there is great importance to our meetings within… You will see…"