Short Stories

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"Rainbow's End "


David had just got home from a rummage sale, and was feeling rather pleased

with himself for having paid half of the asking price on a used metal detector. He had given

no mind to the seller, who had practically begged for him to offer just a few dollars more

"because her mother was in need of an operation, and they did not have insurance" just a

lie he thought, to try to get more dollars. Heck, he had lied many times before in his own

life when he felt like it, so why should he believe someone else's lie? I will give you $ 25.00,

and not a penny more, he retorted. She took it. He liked that. He had decided to drive to

the beach and try out his luck where the digging would be easy. He grabbed a sandwich

and hopped in his new convertible to drive the eighteen miles up the interstate to White

sands landing and try his almost new device. Halfway there he noticed that towards the

west was a huge rainbow, the remnant of a fast moving shower that had just moved through

the area close to where he was headed. He could not help but notice that the end of the rainbow

looked like it stopped exactly, at the very spot where he would soon be digging. Ha! He

thought, I wonder if it signals that I will find some buried treasure! Not paying enough attention

to what was just over the slight hill he was traveling, it happened all too fast. A tractor trailer

right in front of him, had just swerved to avoid a car that had pulled out in front of it, and when

he looked ahead too late, it was too late to avoid hitting it, he tried to cut the wheel too fast,

and wound up doing the worst possible move he could make. His car slid almost

sideways to the right, and caused his driver side door to slam square into the back of the big rig.

He did not even remember the impact. In fact when he woke up days later, he was told

that he had rolled his vechicle, after he bounced it off of the back of the rig, and had been ejected.

He was in a coma for three days, in the hospital, before he opened his eyes. His doctor

told him that most people that had the kind of injuries that he sustained, would not have lived.

It has to be a miracle said his doctor, he explained by telling him that he had so much

swelling on his brain that they were fixing to drill holes into his skull, in order to relieve

some of the pressure on his brain, when his girlfriend said a prayer of faith, the pressure

had dropped very dramatically, and that he had stabilized very quickly. But I do not even HAVE

a girlfreind said David...Well, the doctor went on, some young lady prayed every day for you

and had been at your bedside a number of times...David thought about this for a while and

tried to guess who it could have been cause he did not have a sister,and had just moved to this

town, and did not even know any young ladies yet. While he was pondering this,the door to his

room opened up, and a girl walked toward him when at first he thought, he had never seen

before. Hi there, she said as he tried hard to figure out how she even knew him. After a long

look at her he said, but you're....she cut him off mid sentence, yes I'm the one that you

bought the metal detector from...but why? He asked, after the way that I treated you at the

yard sale, why would you pray for me? I am a christian, she said ,and was raised to love every person,

even if they treat you unfairly. The only reason that I could even remember who you were is

because of the Metallica t-shirt you had on, and the fact that the car that they showed on tv,

was your red convertable, I remembered it, and your shirt, because when they first brought you in

your face was covered with so much blood, that I could not have told, by your face alone. David was stunned

that this christian girl had forgave him, and prayed for him, and that GOD had answered her

prayer, by saving his life. I..I..I want to know this GOD, will you teach me how to turn my

life to him, because he saved my life, and gave me a second chance, the Doctor himself

said that it has got to be a miracle, for me to have gotten better that fast, and for the brain swelling

to have dropped as fast as it did. I will teach you said the girl with a huge smile on her face

and with the love of GOD in her eyes. So they spent nearly every moment together in the next

few days, He accepted LORD Jesus, and three days later he was released from the hospital.

As they were leaving the hospital David asked, what were you doing at the hospital when they

brought me in? Praying and staying with my mother, who was having surgery, at the time they

brought you in....David thought about this and smiled to himself, for he knew that the girl's

story about her mom needing surgery WAS THE TRUTH. Over time the next couple of months

they grew even closer, and were married the same year. David looked up and said thank you

LORD, for you knew exactly what you were doing.............

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