Chapter
10
It was
Saturday evening and Jessica was getting her clothes ready for Sunday. She just
couldn’t decide on which dress to wear. Should
she wear her green dress or the purple one with the ribbon around the
waist? She looked in her top drawer to
see what kind of hair bows she had. She
had several, but she wanted just the right one.
Some were too small and some were too big. Jessica wasn’t a show off type of a girl - she just liked to look right. Her friend, Gloria understood. Gloria called it appropriate. Jessica found a
lavender hair bow that was just right.
It would look good with her purple dress. So it was decided. Now the shoes. That wouldn’t be a hard choice, since she
didn’t have but four pair of shoes. Her
white sandals would look fine. Her mind
drifted to tomorrow. What was church and
Sunday school going to be like? She had
gone over the ideas in her head so many times.
It was like waiting for Christmas.
She had ideas about what church was going to be like, but she really
didn’t know. With all of Jessica’s
planning and preparations, would church be a let-down? Had she thought too much about it?
Jessica
heard noise downstairs and was brought back to reality. James was playing one of his games. He either stayed outside or was in front of
the television playing a game. Jessica
wondered if James would ever grow up.
She wondered if James would like church or would he be bored. When James was bored, he usually made life
difficult for everyone else around him.
Jessica
remembered the time when her mother had the candle party at their house. The lady had brought all of those great
smelling candles to their house and had arranged them all around the dining
room table. Jessica’s mother had invited
her friends over to the house. They had
cake and punch. It was an exciting
evening. Well, it was exciting for
everyone but James. It had rained that
day and James couldn’t go outside. And
all the ladies were downstairs and he couldn’t play with his game. So James was bored. Jessica remembered him sitting at the top of
the stairs with his head propped up in his hands just staring off into
space. She was old enough to mix in with
the ladies and enjoy the party. But
James ... James was bored to death. That
was until he got an idea. Jessica
remembered seeing James at the top of the stairs with his army man - The army
man with the parachute. She knew what
James was going to do, but she was too far away to stop him. She saw him throw the army man up into the
air. She saw the little plastic army man’s
parachute unroll as he began to fall.
And Jessica saw the army man as he gently floated down on his parachute –
right into the punch bowl! Jessica
remembered the gasp from several of the ladies as the army man plopped right into
the punch bowl. Jessica also remembered
that look on her mother’s face. And
Jessica remembered the look of shock on James’ face as he realized what he had
done. That look was priceless. James ran back into his bedroom as his mother
stormed up the stairs after him. It was
Jessica who had to fish the army man out of the punchbowl. Jessica remembered thinking that the little
army man looked as if he enjoyed the punch!
Jessica’s
mind flashed ahead to thoughts of James at church. I wonder what James will do at church
tomorrow?
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