Description
A dramatic monologue in which Peter remembers and reflects on the Ascension and then challenges us.
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Extract:
A person, one of the disciples, we don't need to know who, is talking to us quite casually, perhaps seated...
I wasn't ever sure what it was all about. My dad had told me about Moses going up Mount Sinai, meeting with God, coming down with his face veiled. Something cosmic had happened and no one was supposed to look at him. He brought the commandments. That was long ago.
Up on a mountain you can feel closer to God. There's the chill of the air, the stiff breeze, sometimes a gale - and the light, it's brighter, or the clouds are heavier.
And I'd heard that story of Elijah hearing God's still, small voice, whispering beyond the after-shock of that earthquake. They said that earthquake had split the ground, fire, smoke, molten rock was flowing from the earth's bowels.
I knew those stories. Cherished our traditions.
We'd been with Jesus up a mountain before. He'd taught in the hills. Once he took us beyond the foothills...
Continues ...
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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