"Set free?" Krista asked, as tears flowed down her cheeks.
She wanted to ask, 'Are you sure?' but that wasn't the thing to say. But not being able to put off confirming what he had just said at least a little she asked, "Really?"
She was going to make the messenger angry she just knew it, but all he did was smile warmly again at her and nod his head in confirmation.
Not being able to help it she asked, "Why?"
"Don't you want to be free Krista? Haven't you prayed for this to happen?"
"Yes, but I didn't think the Creator was listening to me."
"The Creator is always listening Krista. He has never ceased from caring for your plight. He mourns every tear that's falling off your face even now."
Krista couldn't take anymore, as sudden belief in the Creator as never before coursed through her. She fell forward onto her face and cried completely overcome by what was happening.
The Creator had heard her cry for help. The Creator was going to set her free. The Creator loved even a slave like her enough to send an angel with a message of promise just for her.
"Thank You! Thank You!" Krista said over and over, as she felt faith come into her and change her as it washed away the layers of bitterness from her life.
She saw her life, as if through a fast moving lens and as bad as it had been, now all she could see was how she had been kept all along the way by a Divine hand and how it had never been as bad as it could have been.
"I love you God!" Krista whispered against the floor, as she felt peace begin to take away all of her fears.
"Come here dear one." The messenger said, as he pulled her up to lean against him putting an arm around her consolingly.
Gradually she calmed down and the messenger asked, "Ready for tomorrow?"
"Yes!" Krista said firmly.
"Good! Now I must leave you, but do not fear as the message I have been sent to deliver to you will even so come to pass."
The messenger rose up off the floor and headed toward the door.
"Wait! You haven't told me what will happen tomorrow!" Krista cried out half starting to her feet to follow after the messenger.
He turned towards her, "Only have faith and you will see all that the Creator has said will come to pass. You will have freedom and joy added to you tomorrow in over flowing abundance."
The angel turned once more and walked through the door of the cell. Krista got up shakily to her feet and moved to the door and touched it. The door was very real and yet the messenger had simply walked through it!