Keeper of My Soul by Keshia Dawn

Author:Keshia Dawn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Keithe

Keithe arrived at church right on time. Everyone in attendance was in the midst of prayer. Falling in line with the others, Deacon Keithe, a title he’d earned at church and what the congregation lovingly called him, made his way to the altar.

“Yes, Lord,” his voice added to the others calling out to the Lord in a tuned praise. “Yes, Lord.”

The senior pastor of the congregation started off in prayer. “With our repenting hearts, Lord, we come to you and ask that you come in, Lord. Come into this sanctuary and have your way. Clear out the weeded path that crowded our week. That crowded our homes, Lord. For the mind that has been clouded by deception, come in, Lord, and take the pain away.”

“Come on in, Lord,” Keithe backed the prayer up. Knowing prayer never did anybody any harm, Keithe asked God to remove him so that the Lord could get the total praise. “Lord, come into my heart and my mind, Lord, for the understanding,” he whispered.

On his knees in prayer, Keithe swayed from side to side as the tears began to run down his face. When he felt the pastor lay his hands on his head and the liquid feel of the blessed oil running down his forehead, Keithe yearned even more for the power of God to come in.

“Help me, Lord. Help me,” he requested. It had been rough before. It was sad to even have to count, but he’d been through three other cheating episodes. With each time Michelle promising it would be the last, Keithe wanted the pain to officially be over.

There was only so much he could take and his heart had just about run its course. On his trip back from Dallas, Keithe had made up his mind to just leave. Or so he thought. It was just like Michelle to throw some loveless, superficial affection in the middle of the problem. Almost trapping him at the front door on his return home, he could tell Michelle had rehearsed all she would do while probably wanting to do nothing.

He tried. When he made his way back home, he tried to get his feelings off of his chest and let Michelle know that he couldn’t do it again. “No more,” was just about all he could get out before she kept shushing him.

“Michelle, no. I—” she had interjected again. That’s when he just silenced himself and listened to her recycled garbage.

On and on she went about making a mistake and knowing how she’d taken him for granted. Again. How she really, really, really loved him and didn’t want anyone else. Again. When she rehearsed what seemed to be made-up lines about having no love or peace growing up and having no one to love her in her childhood, Keithe just shrugged and walked past her. And there he was, again, stuck.

Before he’d left the house for prayer service Michelle wanted so badly to get him back under her wing, under her spell, by promising a visit to church.

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