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Topic: Postcards (08/29/05)
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By Darlene Perkins
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Ma’Dear told Tanya supper would be ready soon and that she was making Mindy’s favorite chocolate cake. Ma’Dear you don’t need to cook and for goodness sake and under the circumstances we can go without dessert. Don’t be silly child we gotta eat what good is starving gonna do? Ma’Dear rose from her chair and her eyeglasses slid off her sweaty face to her chest as her eyeglass chain dangled around her ebony neck. When I get so I can’t cook I’ll join Samuel to Glory said Ma’Dear taking a handkerchief from her pocket wiping the sweat from her brow. Now, you go fetch Mindy and tell her to get cleaned up for supper gone nah girl.
Tanya yelled Mindy time for supper! She glanced over and saw the dog near the barn so she walked over and there was Mindy feeding hay to the horses. Honey you all right? Yeah. Why aren’t you out playing with your friends? Cause I’m mad at Jesus. Mad at Jesus! What on earth for? Cause, I remember in church Reverend Davis said God is in charge of everything. That’s true. Mindy dropped the hay and folded her arms, if Jesus is in charge then why would he let grandpa’s train crash? He could have just put his hand out and caught it couldn’t he? Come here sweetie let’s sit over here. They sat with Mindy looking up at her mother as Tanya struggled to explain free will to her 9 year old daughter. Mindy do you know what free will is? Yeah we learned in bible school free will is when God says do what you want but I’ll get you later! Tanya laughed. Well not exactly. God allows us to make our own choices in life if he interfered what kind of life would we have? I don’t understand. Ok let’s see…I let you play with your friends don’t I? Yes. What if I stood there telling you every little thing to do? Like…don’t run so fast you wouldn’t have any fun at all would you? No but. . .ssssh. I see you running and know you are running so fast and you are bound to fall but I have to let you learn that if you do this you might fall. If I stopped you every time you did this or that you wouldn’t have any fun. Yeah. God is like that too. He gave us the word as guidance to study and know right from wrong and what pleases him. Now grandpa planned this trip up North for a long time, remember how excited he was? Yeah he really wanted to go see Aunt May and Uncle Joseph! Now what if God said, no you can’t go and stopped him? Then he wouldn’t be dead said Mindy crying. No he wouldn’t have spent time with his daughter and son. You see honey God has a plan for us and when we finish what he has planned for us he calls us home to rest. Is that what grandpa’s doing resting cause he was tired sometimes? Yes he is resting and waiting for us to join him one day. I ain’t ready yet! Me either sweetie, me either!
Coincidently, on the day of the funeral a postcard arrived for Mindy from her grandpa Samuel. He must have mailed it at the last minute because of its slow arrival. It said, hi baby grandpa misses you too but I’m having so much fun up here! Love, Grandpa Samuel. Mindy saw that as a sign that her grandpa was fine and while she missed him she shed no more tears and neither did Tanya!
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