9/11 03 - Remember Tuesday Morning by Kingsbury Karen

Author:Kingsbury, Karen [Kingsbury, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sent 120620
ISBN: 9780310334484
Google: HPsE1mBFv0oC
Amazon: B004PYDJGE
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2011-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Clay had a strange feeling when he woke up, an uneasiness that Alex was right — that something big was on the brink, some drug bust or hostage situation. Or maybe the fire Alex was worried about. In his years of working in law enforcement, a number of times God had impressed upon him an urgency or higher degree of alertness when he was entering a day that would require his very best. As he ate breakfast with Jamie and CJ and Sierra and as he dressed in his olive green uniform, he had that feeling today.

Or maybe it was just the wind.

They were a little more than a week into October, and sometime before dawn the Santa Ana winds kicked up with a vengeance. All morning he could hear them rushing through the trees out front, the haunting whistle signaling the sort of wind that could rip tree branches and down power lines. Once he hit the road for work, the force of the wind became easy to see. Strong and relentless, the steady gusts powered their way through the trees, bending them to one side and pushing against his car. Already some debris lined the gutters and sidewalks.

Unless the wind let up, there would be fires today. Anyone who had lived in LA more than a few years knew that much. Some might come from careless cigarettes tossed from passing cars or from a campfire left untended. Others would be set by kids messing around. But without a doubt, this was a day that could easily attract the REA.

The feeling of something big was still with Clay when he reached work, so he did something he often did after he parked just outside headquarters. He took the small Bible from the console between the front two seats and opened it to the last place he’d been reading. Proverbs. So much about life in that book. Clay was constantly amazed at the simple lessons provided in every chapter. He read a few paragraphs from chapter eighteen, then he turned back to the fourteenth chapter, to the place where he’d found the verse that had shouted to him about Alex Brady.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads only to death. He still hadn’t shared the verse with Alex, but if the REA chose today to act on some of their threats, this was one day they could all use wisdom from God. Especially Alex. Clay looked at the verse once more. The kid was crazy, infiltrating into a volatile gang like the REA. The members weren’t known for their violence against people, but if they figured out Alex was a sheriff’s deputy, who knew what they might do? Whether he was armed or not, they could’ve overtaken him, found his recorder and his guns, and used them on him.

Today was Alex’s first day back at work. Clay exhaled slowly and closed his Bible. Alex meant well. The guy was already a legend in the department, a hero by any definition of the word.

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