God Loves You. - Chester Blue: An Inspirational Book About a Very Special Bear With a Message From God by Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Author:Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson [Anderson, Suzanne Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry and George Press
Published: 2012-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

It was an unusually hot February day in San Francisco. Although there had been the usual morning fog, around ten a.m. it had lifted and been replaced with a clear blue sky that allowed the sun to beat down on the city streets, warming the air and causing people to take off their jackets to seek relief from the growing heat.

Just such a person stood on the corner waiting for a cable car. Early that morning, he’d been wearing a business suit, but now he carried his rumpled suit jacket over one arm, wore his necktie loosened, and had the sleeves rolled up on his shirt. He sighed.

From time to time, he mopped his brow with a cotton handkerchief he pulled from his pants pocket.

It was mid-morning. Some people were heading to lunch, but this man was heading home. He looked up the hill to watch for the next available cable car, and then he looked down at his scuffed shoes, and sighed. He’d just lost his job.

Sam was his name. He hadn’t expected to lose his job when he’d gone in to work that morning. He’d worked downtown in a tall office building. That morning when he’d gone into his office, he’d sat down at his desk and started working, writing a report on his computer as he did every morning.

Around mid-morning, he got up and went to the office kitchen to get a cup of coffee, as he did every day. As he walked back to his desk, his boss, Mr. Timmons, called Sam into his office.

When Sam entered Mr. Timmons’ office he knew something was wrong. Mr. Timmons asked Sam to take a seat and then he explained that business had slowed down.

They didn’t need as many people to work in the office anymore. The company needed to save money, so some of the people who worked there would have to be let go. His boss called it “downsizing,” but Sam knew that it really meant that he wouldn’t have a job anymore.

So Sam had gone back to his desk and put his belongings in the box they gave him. Then he’d taken the elevator to the lobby and walked out to the corner to wait for a cable car heading down to the wharf.

After ten minutes of standing on that corner, in the hot sun, Sam finally heard the cable car’s horn and then watched as it stopped in front of where he stood on the sidewalk.

Sam picked up his box, climbed the steps of the cable car, walked down the center aisle, and found a seat on the third bench from the front door. He folded his jacket and carefully placed it on top of the box that he’d put down on the seat next to him. He rested his arm on the pile and sighed as the cable car started down the hill toward the wharf.

Usually, this ride home was Sam’s favorite part of the day. He loved to look down the hill toward the bay and the beautiful blue water of the Pacific Ocean.

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