Thursday was another day. Buck worked 6AM to 3PM and headed home to Cat, who had already started preparing for their Thursday home Bible study. He called a short greeting to her and poured himself a clear, tall glass of ice cold cream, took a sip, and placed it down on the stove. A mischievous look in his eye he opened the microwave, revealing the freshly heated taco chips Cat had just placed there to freshen.
Buck silently slipped the chips out of the microwave and into the conventional oven, then slipped a bag of popcorn into the microwave before Cat slid into the room smiling. She wrapped her arms affectionately around Buck, holding his attention as she deftly switched his glass of cream with the popcorn and slid the popcorn into the back waistband of her skirt. He spun her around so that she was by the cupboard and he again by the stove to pick up his cream, when he discovered it was gone. He looked intently for a moment before he realized that Cat had swiped his fav beverage, but by then she had opened the cupboard and retrieved a serving plate, sliding the rescued popcorn bag in back of the cups.
Buck, of course, lunged for the cupboard as Cat giggled and slid out of his way. While Buck’s head was in the cupboard searching for his cream, Cat scooped the taco chips back into the microwave, started the microwave, and headed into the living room carrying Buck’s glass of cream.
“MMmmmmm Buck you make the best cream” Cat purred as she slid away.
“That’s Mine!” called Buck, playfully.
“Mmmmm” said Cat, a white cream mustache telling that she had just helped herself to his cream.
He chased her across the coffee table, their feet clad only in socks and sliding on the hard wood floors. They ran over the couch and around the room twice before she let him corner her with his cream. “Mmmmm” she smiled as she took another drink “My favorite!”
Cat’s green eyes locked lovingly onto Bucks piercing blue eyes “Now I must teach you a lesson!” he smiled.
“Kiss me my Anthony!” chanted Cat
“You have already stolen my kingdom! Will you also take my heart?!” exclaimed Buck
“Two straws” quipped Cat as she pulled two soda straws from her belt and dropped them into the waiting cream. Silence ensued, broken only by rapid gulps as both tried to reach the bottom before the other. Buck won, but it might have been because Katrina let him win. Or maybe not, it was a close race.
Buck set the glass on the coffee table and wrapped his arms around Katrina. “Do you know I love you?” he asked.
“Do you know I waited all day for you?” she asked.
He kissed her and looked into her eyes. “We have five Bible studies going now. This is awesome. And everything is always perfect when they get here. You are awesome.”
“Oh, the teaching you do is awesome” replied Cat, as she laid her head on his chest. “Others teach from book knowledge, but you actually KNEW those people. You speak with awesome authority because you were there.”
“I just speak what I know” answered Buck as he held her tight. “It is the LORD in that teaching that makes it so incredible. Forty people are in church now, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost — half of them filled in our house — just one study a night, eight people a study. God is the one who is awesome!”
“Amen” said Cat as she pinched him. “And the trash you promised to take out this morning is still waiting for you on the porch. CHOP CHOP! Our guests will be here at seven!”
The gentle figure in white robes and a gold belt sat down on the Lazy boy chair and pulled the level to release the foot rest. It slid up under his feet as he closed his eyes, a happy smile forming on his face. Reliant stood near by attending, as the figure motioned to the love seat next to his chair.
“Why are we sitting down” asked Reliant.
“Just resting my feet before I start this next Bible study” replied the figure in white.
“Those two are really something” mused Reliant after a short silence.
“Yep”
“Funny too”
“That thing you did. Their first morning together where you scared Buck senseless.”
“Yeah. I almost split at the seems. Did you see the look on his face.”
“Reliant, that was mean.”
“Oh. Sorry. I didn’t intend anything bad by it.”
“I know. Still, if it was anyone but Buck I’d a had ta say someting abod it buddy!”
“But with Buck?”
“Funny as all get out. Did you see the look on his face?”
“Yeah. It was historic. I put a copy in the archives for his Day.” Reliant paused. “Do they get a couple years of peace now that they’re married?”
“Do you think they really want that?”
“No, but I think they need that.”
“What if I told you that there are not a couple years left?”
“There aren’t?”
“Just what if I told you so?”
“Then I guess they’d prefer to be useful now and rest later in heaven.”
“Yeah. Anyone else would take the easy way out. Those two are really something.”
“So waddaya think?” asked Jannie, her eyes fixed on her husband, Pastor Paul, as he looked at the bumper sticker she had just handed him.
“You made that on your printer?”
“Yep. Do you like it? We can have some made at the mall print shop.”
“‘Jesus es Senior de Groundswell’. Nice. Good colors. Earth Tones. Yeah, you did good. But lets stop at 100. We don’t need a re-run of the candle thing.”
Thursday was another day. Buck worked 6AM to 3PM and headed home to Cat, who had already started preparing for their Thursday home Bible study. He called a short greeting to her and poured himself a clear, tall glass of ice cold cream, took a sip, and placed it down on the stove. A mischievous look in his eye he opened the microwave, revealing the freshly heated taco chips Cat had just placed there to freshen. Continue reading "We’re Never Truely Alone" »
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