THE SEAL

And the Father spoke without a voice,
yet every creature heard Him.

“It is accomplished.
The debt is dust.
The enemy is but a bodiless shadow.
My house stands open.
My light shall never know a setting.
He who was last is now first.
He who was servant is now king.
And nothing,
throughout all ages of ages,
shall ever overturn what I have decreed.”

And heaven and earth,
as with a single breath,
answered: Amen.