Dispatches to the Apprentice (5)
Beloved Junior Apprentice,
Precious one. Yes, more than a year it has been since I have scribed anything in visible articulations for your perusal. Much has taken place in the battlefront throughout this period of time. Multiple events have taken place which threatened the cause of the Kingdom for which we have fiercely sought to live, and countless others have affirmatively impacted the ever-increasing establishment of our Master's subversive Kingdom.
I have fallen not less than once in this past year - this is a painful confession from a senior apprentice. Yes, my dearest friend, senior apprentices too do acquire scars in the course of their battles. But these scars should not constitute a mockery of our conscience or an accusatory voice hailing for the Kingdom's doom. For we know unequivocally that in the final analysis, the Master's Kingdom will come in its fullness... who can stop it? That you and I are called to participate in the Order for the establishment of this Kingdom does not by any means imply that the success of the mission is contingent upon us; our invitation to participate is nothing more than a privilege. The Master loves you and me.
But in this past year, I have been reminded over and over again that as we stand in the midst of the relentless battle against the Old Kingdom, staking ourself for the cause of the New, sometimes it would appear that our greatest enemy is not those we face in the battlefield, but those we face in the mirror. Yes, I am talking about our selves. I'm beginning to wonder which is the more lethally dangerous one of the two.
Beloved junior apprentice, you have grown. I have observed it and I will attest to it with the deepest trust the Master has placed upon me in his charge given to me over you. And I too have grown. I have grown because you were in my life. It feels somewhat strange calling you my junior apprentice any longer, for you have fast become a friend. No, more than a friend. Come, let's keep up the good fight until the Kingdom comes in its fullness; if not today, perhaps tomorrow. Or the day after. It will be done.
Yours most affectionally,
Senior Apprentice
Links to previous Dispatches to the Apprentice:
Dispatches to the Apprentice (1)
Dispatches to the Apprentice (2)
