Life is a vanishing vanity.
Like grass burning in a prairie fire
Consumed by time in a rush of wind
And left with nullity.

Long since, have I chosen death,
Sweet end to a tortured existence.
Why strain and struggle with life?
Why continue the insane dance?

Why be pulled between contradictions,
That threaten the very foundations
Of one’s mind and existence?
Why writhe like a bug on a pin?

But the answer is not a bullet to one’s brain,
Or to spill one’s life out in vain.
No, there is another Way,
Out of your life, into Another’s.

There is a secret door,
Through which one can walk through death,
Into another Man’s life,
A man not conflicted, but perfectly whole.

The door is a horror to go through,
A blind step into blinding light,
With no knowledge of the depths below,
Or the heights above.

Two thousand years ago, that One Man
Begged us follow him into that Light,
Through that terror of blind belief,
Into the fair fields of Paradise.

He blazed the way, took the blind step
Off the cliff, on a cross, plunging
Through unspeakable agony and loss,
Through the darkest hours of history and time.

He said “Take up your cross and follow me.
Go to your own execution cheerfully.
He that loves his life in this world shall lose it,
But he that hates his life shall find it.”

It is an agony, not easy, not once done.
To step off that cliff of blinding light,
Into eternity’s Sun.
But He bids us come.

And when you take that step,
And walk in air and light,
Communing with the Light of Life
The One, the Only, God’s Son.

Such sweet unspeakable union,
With God and Spirit and Son,
No words can describe those moments,
Out of time, into eternity, into the One.

Then you will know of what I speak.
That life is not to be grasped with desperation,
But is truly found by stepping off that cliff,
The blessed portal between time and eternity.

So come with me, choose your death and Another’s Life.
Step out of time, into eternity
Across the chasm that separates God and Man,
And know that sweet inexpressible communion.

Eternity is now for those who choose it.
Give up your life now, don’t loose it!
And you will know such unspeakable bliss,
That only heaven has words to express.