Proof The Bible Is True

01/21/24

“Sometimes a spiritual break in our daily often stress filled routine is just what we need.” Admin

 

A few years ago, my friend Karen called on a gray, December afternoon. “I’d like to bring your Christmas gift over later, okay?”

 

I thought through the afternoon’s events and felt pressure in my chest. There was an evening Christmas concert, and the boys’ dress pants were a jumble on their closet floor. There’d be ironing and a battle to get everyone into dark socks.

 

There were two dozen cookies to bake for after-concert treats. We had afternoon studies, and the little guys needed naps, and there were gifts to wrap for the Angel Tree. Add to that supper and time to slip out of jeans and into something nice.

 

“Today’s wild,” I said. “Will it take much time?” I hated to ask, but my friendship with Karen was like that. We could be honest. Always.

 

“No,” she said. “See you at four.”

 

At four o’clock we stood in the back window, watching for Karen. The boys breathed on the window and drew pictures on the foggy glass, but I listened to the tick of our antique clock. There’s not much time and if one thing goes late, the rest of the night will fall like dominoes…

 

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