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I'd countered my sisters with the plea of, "Shouldn't we try to be authentic in our ith God, especially when God specifically says not to observe the celebration tians?"

Then h dudgeon as if he hadn't been listening to anything of what I'd previously said, "Why do you have to be one of those peopleus we have to throw our Christmas tree out next!"

Well that had fallen rather conveniently or as the case may be inconveniently hat the conversation was about and I had responded to it by quoting Jere down of a tree and decorating it in one's own home Oh my father had really lost it then

Blood vessels had pumped to capacity as he'd screamed, "You take the Bible far too literal Samantha! You better watch out or it will ruin you! Goodness knows you've already let your over attention to ist Is this all you do sit around thinking up things to cause trouble? Look what you've done and how upset you've one on and on, until finally I had just stood up froe before ically put ht, as I didn't believe inoffmy eyes I prayed, "God I don't know about this I was faithful to share what You revealed to me and I was rejected for it and now I doubt his sincerity aboutfroed What is this all about? If I shouldn't go please tellI looked up and whispered, "Why?"

"Because I wish to preserve you even as a faithful father does for a child he loves"

Feeling on the verge of tears I whispered out brokenly, "Butup his sleeve and I knoon't be good forrun!"

"Samantha you have no father other than Me for even as I created you in My own ie I a I pressed my face to the keyboard and nodded my acceptance of h His words that my earthly father had never shown to me