Do you see a cave before you? The rocks glow with yellows and oranges and pinks, with love to me. 

Then rugged stones sing in gentle tones, exploring their voice, praising me. 

Below your feet, the rock glows with each step. 

Within this cave, surrounded by translucent rock which finds its voice in joy and life, I carved a path for you. You have future steps to take. I ask you to walk.

And I ask you to sing.

When you sing, your words echo from the rocks, chiseled and translucent. Bright light glows from behind the surface of these rocks as you sing. Celebrate new life, my child.

Understand: this is not a closed cavern but a passageway formed by my love for you.

Take more steps.

Sing more songs.

[Jesus] replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!” Luke 19:40

Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015).