As the Eagle Flies by J. D. Oliver

Author:J. D. Oliver [Oliver, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, As the Eagle Flies, J. D. Oliver, Western, Time Travel
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Published: 2012-08-17T18:02:16+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I stood there staring at the starry night, thinking. The wonders of creation always quieted the turmoil of life, as it became more and more complicated. They say that the only thing that remained constant was change. But that wasn’t quite true, God, he always remained the same.

When I was growing up, my Indian relatives always called the Almighty God Jehovah, the Great Spirit. And he certainly was that, Great. I seen a shooting star, some space rock or debris as it fell to earth and burnt itself up. Made me think of how brief our life here on earth was, just like a shooting star, bright but brief.

I shook myself and went to our room. I opened the door, it was unlocked. Faith and Mary Jane was in the hot tub. I said, “You really should keep the door locked, anybody could come in.”

“Yes, anybody did,” Faith said with a giggle. “Seriously though, you’re right, but we left it open for you. Would you mind tucking the girls in, they said they wanted you to tuck them in.”

“Sure, no problem.” I went in the bedroom, they were reading a book together. “What are you reading?” I asked.

“Huckleberry Finn, have you ever read it?” Iris asked.

“Of course, it’s one of my favorite books. Are you girls ready for bed?”

“Yes, Daddy.” Alita said, “Daddy do we have to put pajama’s on?”

“Why, don’t you want to?”

“Well, Mommy and Aunt Mary Jane don’t wear clothes, they took theirs off as soon as they got in the room. Why does everyone wear clothes?”

That was a stumper. I sat there for a few seconds thinking. Just why do we wear clothes? Oh, I know to keep us warm and to prevent sunburn. But why does society think nudity is shameful? Why do I get embarrassed when people see me naked?

“Well why do you two think we wear clothes?” I asked them.

Iris said, “I know in the Bible, Adam and Eve didn’t.”

“Well yes, at first they didn’t. But do you know why they started to?”

“Uh, because they were bad?” Iris said.

“Alright, let’s think about that. When they were first created, they didn’t wear clothes, and they weren’t ashamed of it. Do you remember what they did wrong in God’s eyes?

“Yes, I think so.” Iris said, “They ate an apple off of a tree that God said not to eat from. I learned that in Sunday school.”

“Right, well let’s read that account.” I said, as I reached into the bedside stand and took the Bible out. I turned to that story in Genesis the third chapter. “You see how the serpent lied, of course it wasn’t the snake, it was Satan talking. He said, ‘is it really so that God said that you cannot eat from every tree of the garden?’

And Eve answered and said, ‘of the fruit of the trees from the garden we may eat. But from the tree that is in the middle of the garden we may not eat. God said, ‘you must not eat from it, no, you must not touch it, that you do not die.

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