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By Shanta Richard
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“That was a good meal, child, you are getting to be as good as your Mom.”
“Thanks Dad,” Wendy replied as she cleared the table and hesitantly began, “Please Dad, can you spare me some money to buy a new dress? Randy has asked me out to a dance.”
“Randy, that lame boy? You want to go out with him? You a high school drop out- with no face, figure or fortune. Reminds me of that precious cup and saucer you are so crazy about – cup with no handle and saucer with a crack ha, ha, ha, ha…” he laughed and walked away.
Wendy wiped away her tears. The cup and saucer was her one precious possession. It was her gift from her grandmother. It was an antique but because it was broken it was worthless. The handle had come off and she had glued it. She had painted over the crack in the saucer. She loved it.
She finished her chores and hurried to her job at Mrs. Harriet Hendrickson’s Antique Shop. Mrs. Harriet was a kind old lady and loved Wendy, the poor motherless child.
“What’s the matter dear, you have been crying?”
Wendy broke down and related her problems.
“Well, I want you to work extra hours today to clear up the attic. I will pay for your dress.”
Wendy had a wonderful time at the dance in her new dress. Randy brought her a bunch of roses. After the dance they walked in the park. There amidst the flowers and under the silvery moon, Randy proposed to her and she joyfully accepted.
That night she waited up for her father to tell him the glad news. But her father came home drunk and went straight to bed. She knew she had to wait for an opportune moment.
Days passed. Randy wanted an early wedding before summer ended. She started packing up her few belongings. One day she was wrapping the cup and saucer in tissue paper, when her father walked in. He looked at her in surprise.
“Where do you think you are going?” he growled.
“I’ve wanted to tell you, Dad, Randy and I are getting married.”
“Of all the nerve! You want to marry that lame boy?
This is what I think of your marriage,” he said and snatching the cup and saucer from her hand and dashed it on the floor. Wendy picked up the broken pieces in her hand and wept like child with a broken toy. And like a child she took her brokenness to her Father.
It was true that Randy limped. He was a veteran, but he had a good job. Eventually her father agreed to the wedding and one beautiful summer day, Wendy and Randy were married. Wendy went to live in her new home, a cottage in the country.
There was a porch in the cottage that with a trellis covered with a lush green creeper. One day Wendy found lovely blue flowers on the trellis.
“What are these flowers, dear?” she asked Randy.
“They are called Canterbury Bells because of their shape. They are also known as ‘cup and saucers’. If turned upside down they look like a cup and saucer. They look just as gorgeous as you, my beloved!”
“Oh, Randy, how wonderful! I had a porcelain cup and saucer just like this. It was painted with the same kind of blue flowers. I was miserable when it was broken. But you know what, I gave God those broken pieces and He has given me these live flowers that will gladden my heart over and over, year after year. God specializes in mending broken things and making them new. Randy, darling, I am so happy.”
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Loved this.
God bless~
I think one sentence has a word missing. The one describing the trellis. But it's a very nice entry.
Thanks.