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This novel, click on the title and when reading, it moves right to left by using your little wheel on top of your mouse. A little different but you soon get used to it…..I hope. Enjoy it

J I Hall, Jr

It does not matter in life what you do, who you are or what your religion is, nor your gender or even if you are a “world made” transgender, the things that happen in life happens. Good, bad or whatever, they are going to happen. The bible tells us that over in Ecclesiastes. However, the way we deal with all those happenings does make a difference. One thing about being a Christian is that Jesus through the Holy Spirit helps us deal with them. We are going to be sick, we are going to have to deal with diseases, we are going to have times of need, and times of plenty…..happy times, sad times, wet years, dry years and experience all the emotions of life…After we pass on, of course, it’s over. The way we have met and dealt with those living moments will affect the hereafter…..having Jesus as our savior is the only way to cover those sinful moments that we all face in life…We ask Him to forgive us and those sins are forgiven. He becomes our blood sacrifice covering all our transgressions. So in life we are going to have it all happen to us to some degree. In the hereafter, however, it’s different…It’s, well it’s, Heaven for  the believer….beautiful, peaceful, no death, no tears, no sickness..For the unbeliever, well, that’s the eternal fire called Hell. We have to choose before we die….It’s all covered in the Bible, don’t just take my word for it, read all about it there.

America is a lot happier nowadays, ain’t we. No one seems to be discussing the sins of America, telling us what we are doing wrong and trying to correct us to their way of thinking. The nerve of some of the preachers trying to push righteousness down our throats telling us that is what God wants us to do. Folks over at the major networks do not like that at all….Everything goes is much, much better than nothing goes. Nothing goes sells nothing. Everything goes sells big time. That’s what America wants….Everything goes. It ain’t legal or God says it ain’t right, well, let’s just pass a law that says it is right and that it is ok and get on with it. That’s what we do. Ain’t it?…. I’m not saying it is correct and right in God’s sight but you and I both know that’s how we want it to go. So that’s exactly what we do…….Yes, I know that we are now living under a much gentler time, where everything is forgiven if we ask for it and repent and I really believe that to be so. But consider,  back over there somewhere some words echo in my heart that stands out….FEAR THE LORD THY GOD…..We have a new Covent now. I know that. But still, we cannot be forgetting who is boss and forgetting that He writes the law and only He can change them. Thy shall not kill…..it is still a law….Love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, with all thy soul….it is still the law….Still expected from us. Some things go on forever and forever….He is not happy with us when we just keep on sinning with no remorse, no repenting…So things happen in life that make us look to Him, things that make us realize that some things are much bigger than what man can handle….and we still need His help. Like now….

In November 1935 Pete Hester was born. In April 1936 Cecil Bonner was born. He lived up on top of the hill and I lived just down under the hill. Around the road it was probably 1/4 miles between our houses, but up the path between our houses was probably a lot closer. Anyway, our houses were very close, our Dad’s were very close and he and I became two peas in a pod. We worked in Uncle Dee’s cotton and corn fields together and worked for Uncle Dee at his sawmill. And he would pay us, always a little something, always as an award to make us realize the value of working and getting paid for it. Because of our being so close, I reckon I became close to Cecil’s family, cause they just took me in and loved me and I felt it was almost as much as they loved Cecil. For many years, if you saw one of us, you saw the other. So, we worked together and we played together and we ate together. My mom worked. Aunt Vera, Cecil’s mom did not work, well, away from home anyway. She was a wonderful cook and of course she would always invite me to eat with them. Only thing, when Aunt Vera fixed a meal everyone at the table was expected to eat some of everything she fixed. She fixed okra, you ate it…she fixed asparagus, you ate it, she fixed tomatoes, you ate them. Now I was a meat and potatoes man, except Aunt Vera did not let me get away with that . I had to take some of everything and I had to eat everything I took. You did not leave the table until everything was gone and there was no way to cheat. Aunt Vera was so pretty and so precious that I really did wanted to please her and do everything she said, but a meat and potatoes man having to eat all those veggies, like English Peas….and lettuce and radishes and carrots, rabbit food? Yep, she made you eat it all.
On to my point, finally, today I eat it all, thanks to Aunt Vera and I generally clean up my plate. I’m still a meat and potatoes guy but I eat all that other stuff, including the rabbit food. Cecil, Uncle Dee and Aunt Vera are as much a part of me as Mom and Dad and Gent and Sam. I loved them….More importantly, they loved me….

Did you ever wonder what will the dates be after AD…..if there are records kept of days after the return of our Lord…What did we have, around 5000 years of BC? And now, 2021 years of AD so far…and we are probably a few years away from the Rapture…will we start recording the years as AR or some other initial stating how long we are in heaven? I think not…It’s forever and who will want to count forever?. And the one’s that are already there would already be counting I reckon. When God said, I Was and then said, I Am, I guess the counting really started at I Was, so the years over there are probably recorded in the I Was years, I reckon they number in the billions by now. No, I really don’t think we will be worried about how long we have been there…we will just enjoy our time together…for years and years and years and years….well, you get the idea about us in the I Was time and dates…

Have you noticed on the programs that discuss UFO and such are getting favorable reports from the government nowadays. One of the reports stated that is because they are no longer unidentified. They now know who they are or so the reporter said. Maybe, or maybe they read the bible and said you know, “I think Revelation talks about these guys.” I for one do not know for sure,  but I also think they are real….I also think there are some good’un and some bad’un….and them good’un belong to God and them bad’un belong to Satan….More later..

With more of the vaccine available the Covid 19 number are beginning to come down. Before long, I think we will return to a form of normalcy around the country and travel and socializing will increase once again. Churches will be open for Easter this year, I hope, and families will once again celebrate with one another. And when it happens….wow, how nice….I know I, for one, am really looking forward to it.