OUR NEW LIFE AS CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS BEGINS...



AT FIRST CHURCH WAS FUN

WE WENT ON PICNICS AND SANG IN THE CHOIR

I EVEN GOT USED TO MOM'S

HAIR IN A BUN






BUT AFTER A WHILE IT TOOK OVER OUR LIVES

AT LEAST IT SEEMED THAT WAY TO ME

WE HEARD ABOUT SIN

AND HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION

AND ANGELS

AND BEING UNDER GOD'S WINGS




AND ONE TIME DADDY WAS UPSET AT MOM

FOR LETTING THE POTATOES BURN

WHILE SHE READ HER BIBLE.





JIMMY GOT BIT BY A WILD HORSE

ON A WALKING TRIP IN THE DESERT

ON FAMILY DAY WITH THE CHURCH.


SINCE HE LOVED ANIMALS AND SINCE NO ONE WAS LOOKING

HE MADE A MAD DASH OVER TO THE HERD

AND REACHED UP TO TOUCH ONE

STANDING RUSSET AND BEAUTIFUL IN THE ARIZONA SUN

AND IT BIT HIS SHOULDER.





HE WAS HURT BAD

AND THE NEAREST HOSPITAL WAS IN TUCSON

SO THE CHURCH PEOPLE LAID HIM ON THE DRY CRACKED DESERT DIRT

AND PRAYED OVER HIM.




NOW IT'S TRUE

THAT HE DID RECOVER

THAT VERY DAY

BUT IT MADE ME NERVOUS

BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF BLOOD AND SWEAT AND TEARS FROM JIMMY

AND BECAUSE MOM AND DAD WOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM

IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE CHURCH PEOPLE.





I DIDN'T KNOW THEN

THAT THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MANY MIRACLES THAT I WOULD SEE.

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