Lord Adam, Dragonslayer
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If you could see Adam, you would see a
knight, in burnished armor brightly gleaming,
astride a white horse. What you wouldn't see is
why the armor shines brightly. It is not
burnished by him, nor any other human hands,
but the claws of the dragons he wars against.
Under his helmet is a lion's mane of thick
hair and beard. Under his breastplate are
scars, some quite close to his heart.
This knight errant yearns for quests.
Something difficult, something dangerous,
something active. Some place to prove himself
by serving in a costly way. He longs for that
battle when his blood will mingle with that of
his fellow warriors and he may at last embark
on the last great adventure.
He has a lord above him, to whom he owes
allegiance and honor. He is also a mentor,
turning his face to a squires whom he focuses
on and draws up. He draws them, as he was
drawn, out of the comfort of home, into the
mysteries of life, and into the company of men
and society to reconnect more deeply. He has
tried to explain that siring a child is
something an impudent youth can do, but being a
spiritual father is the mark of a
man.
Once his mind is on a task, it moves
forward from beginning to end. It moves with
the force of an avalanche. He does one task at
a time, and wants to do it well.
There is another side to his seriousness. He
can be deadly serious, but there is a merry
twinkle in his eye. His force and his energy
are too much to contain, and he is capable of
catching people off guard. (Especially in his
practical jokes.) Like the lion, he is not safe
and not tame; he is both serious and silly, and
can astound in both. When he plays with
children, playing with him is both like playing
with a kitten and playing with a
thunderstorm.
To his lady Adam turns with reverence.
She is a wonder to him. The extravagance of the
quests she bids him and he embarks on, is a
spectacular offshoot of his more quiet
service in private. Though Adam would never see
it this way, he is taller when he bows and
kisses her hand, and richer when he gives her
a costly gift.
His honor is his life, and wants to live and
act as a son of God. He believes that faith
works, and strives to show virtue and
behave in a manner worthy of Christ.
Favorite Scripture
Passage:
"And being found in human form he humbled
himself and became obedient unto death, even
death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him and
bestowed on him the name which is above every
name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
A Quote:
"God, give me mountains to climb and the
strength for climbing."
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Lady Eve, Poet's Heart
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If you could see Eve at her best, she would
be beside a fire, inside a great hall. She
would be stoking a fire with one hand, another
hand would call forth forth music from a silver
harp, another hand would be writing a letter,
and she would use both hands to embrace the
sorrowing child on her lap in comforting love.
And she would do this lightly, joyfully, with a
smile from the other side of pain. Though Eve
sits still, one can almost see her dancing. It
would take time to see all her many layers of
beauty... if that were even possible. What
is the secret behind her enigmatic smile? What
deep mysteries lie hidden in her heart of
hearts?
Her beauty is as a rose: a ladder of thorns
leads up to a flower so exquisite as to be
called God's autograph. She toils hard, and it
is difficult to see lines of pain in her face
only because she has worked through them so
that they have become part of her joy. She
knows a mother's worry, and she looks on others
with a mother's caring eyes. She looks with the
joy on the other side of sorrow.
Her home is her castle, and it is a castle
she tries to run well. Adam... well, dear man
as he is, he isn't very good with managing
resources. She runs the castle in an
orderly and efficient manner, and as the lady
in charge, she handles well a great many things
that her lord wouldn't know how to begin doing.
The castle is their castle, of course, but
there are things that need attending to so that
Adam can continue slaying dragons. Yet to say
that is to put last things first. The reason
she handles so many taxing details is that Adam
is the light of her life, her king and her
lord, her bright morning star.
She turns to her loom as a place to make
wall hangings. At least, that's what someone
would say if he missed the point completely.
She makes beautiful wall hangings, but there's
more.
The loom is a centering place for her, a
quieting place. After other things happen that
take processing, she settles into that peace.
Her heart is quieted as she lets it all sort
out.
That quieting is not far from her mystic's
heart. She is mystery and lives in connection
with the mystery of faith. There is One she is
closer to than her lord, and presence,
mystical communion, dwelling in the presence of
the divine, is precious to her.
Favorite Scripture
Passage:
"Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done
a beautiful thing to me.
For you always have the poor with you,
but you will not always have me.
In pouring this ointment on my body she
has done it to prepare me for burial.
Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel
is preached in the whole world, what she has
done will be told in memory of her."
A Quote:
"Little surprises and big hugs and kisses.
Musical dances and bright reminisces,
Quiet with stories and roast leg of lamb,
People who value me for who I am,
Something to say and someone who will hear
it,
A home in good order and a mystical
spirit,
Warm fireside chats and a minstrel who
sings,
These are a few of my favorite things."
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