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REVISED EDITION of THE GREEN MAN of DESTINY — Part 2/Forest & Pastoral
GM 54/Lost & Climbing Out of Hell
Gren in Shades of Blindness Loses Hope
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Gren thought of the desert and his life as a child, dreaming of the Green Man.
If it had been different and hadn’t had the visions, he would have married and lived in the Gusha. A life filled with children and family.
When he was a wee child, his mother brought him to the wild area near the Gusha’s west wall to see the One. But he was not near his hut — or so it appeared. Gren’s mother waited with him for a time and, with solid words as if she were speaking to the soul in him, told him to wait. The little boy remembered other children crying when their mothers left them to see the One. Something in him knew he was not alone. He grew fierce against the grief of separation, and he took a breath, exhaling his…