This prophet named John asks people to step into God's love and be baptized in the cool sunlit waters of the Jordan River. One goes forward, and then another, and another. Somehow they just get ready.
They walk down through the grass and over the rocks and wade into that deep place. They murmur griefs, sins, and dreams into the music of the current. They hold their breath and go under. They come up again into the bright delicious air.