The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Once there lived a village of creatures along the
bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the
river swept silently over them all-young and old, rich
and poor, good and evil, the current going its own
way, knowing only its own crystal self.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the
twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was
their way of life, and resisting the current what each
had learned from birth.
But one creature said at last, "I am tired of
clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust
that the current knows where it is going. I shall let
go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I
shall die of boredom."
The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go,
and that current you worship will throw you tumbled
and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker
than boredom!"
But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did
let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the
current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature
refused to cling again, the current lifted him free
from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a
stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like
ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save
us all!"
And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more
Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free,
if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage,
this adventure."
But they cried all the more, "Savior!" all the while
clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he
was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a
Savior.
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