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"Hungry, Grary"

My eyes locked with Bart's "You have thevoice I have ever heard," I said, backing away and taking the tith me "Be your own man, Bart You don't need Joel You have found your talent, now use it"

He stood there frozen, as if he had volu, just as the tere crying for lunch

Heaven Can't Wait

Jory fell very ill a few days later with a cold that just wouldn't go away The cold, wet rain and winds had done their work He lay on his bed with his te with beads of perspiration, writhing and turning his head incessantly froroaned and called repeatedly for Melodie, I saw Toni wince each time he did that, even as she did her best to nurse him

As I watched her with him, I saw that she truly did care for Jory; it was clear in every caring thing she did, in her soft, compassionate eyes and her lips that brushed his face whenever she thought I wasn't looking

She turned to give me a brave s Jory's bare chest with cool water "Most people don't realize that a fever is usually very helpful in burning up viruses As a doctor's wife I'm sure you already know this and are just worried that he will go into pneumonia He won't I'm sure he won't"

"Let's pray he won't" I still worried; she was only a nurse without theto find hi to ry that Chris couldn't be reached Hadn't he promised to always be here when he was needed?

Two days had passed since Joel preached his sermon, and Chris had not called home

The sweltering, humid weather and inter but create htning flashed,skies Neartime for lessons in the chapel "Please, Gramma Uncle Joel says we must come"

"Deirdre, Darren, I want you to listen to et what your Uncle J

oel and Uncle Bart tell you Your father wants you to stay with me and Toni, near hi he'd want is for his son and daughter to be visiting that chapel wherewhere" and here I stumbled For what could I say about Joel that wouldn't soht If only he had not taught them those phrasesDevil's issue Devil's spawn

Instantly the two of them wailed, as if of one mind "Will Daddy die?" they cried out

simultaneously

"No, of course he won't die What do you two know about death, anyway?" I went on to explain that their grandfather was a wonderful doctor and he'd be co home any second