On Zion's Hill by Anna J. Small Roseboro

Author:Anna J. Small Roseboro
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical
Publisher: Anna J. Small Roseboro
Published: 2015-06-20T05:00:00+00:00

“IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIM,” older Angie deliberates lying abed after her grandparents leave for the sunrise communion service. “In remembrance of Him.” In the seven years since that first communion, Angie’s read the Bible regularly and recalls that when Jesus felt out of it, tired and maybe out of sorts, He’d go off someplace by Himself to spend time alone…alone with God. Angie’s got to do something to get herself together. The attitude she’s been showing is not the least bit like Jesus.

So she rolls out of the cot, slips on her house coat and slippers, gathers her toiletries and heads down to the ladies’ bathroom. Thankfully, no one’s there and she quickly washes, brushes, and combs, and then scurries back to her room to dress. She drapes a sweater around her shoulders and grabs her Bible. She’s got to find a quiet place where she can spend some time alone with God.

It’s still dewy outside and Angie’s glad she’s got on shoes she doesn’t mind getting wet. She’s put on the clothes she’d worn last Saturday when she helped Stella clean the ice cream stand before opening it to the public. The wrinkled clothes she’s donned smell a little rank from the sweat and all, but Angie doesn’t plan to be with anyone else this morning, so she’s okay looking a little less put together than other times.

She’s heading up to a spot higher up the hill to a section of the grounds where little cutting and trimming is done. She’d heard in one of the business meetings that the Zion’s Hill management is reserving that acreage of the campgrounds to build a senior citizen retirement village.

They envision an attractive planned community for the church folks to invest in while they’re still working and then move up here to live when they retire. The plans call for a community center with a small chapel, dining room, recreation facilities, and a clinic staffed with medical professionals trained in geriatrics who will live on site to assist with health issues of aging residents. The plans even showed closed-in walkways between the condos surrounding the community center.

On the drive here this year, Angie learned her grandparents have looked at the retirement community prospectus, but haven’t made a decision. They’d both prefer living nearer to family when they retire. Angie’s all for that. She wants to be able to visit them all year long. The campgrounds would be pretty cut off in the winter.

The trail she follows this morning is rocky and steep, but Angie’s in good shape and soon crests the hill. To the left, she can’t see it, but hears water rippling and roiling. She imagines it twisting and tumbling over the rocks along the hillside just like her agitated feelings. She searches for a ledge she’d seen before.

She climbs a little further and carefully scans the area, listening intently to make sure she’s frightened away any snakes and field mice, but not the birds and butterflies. Angie’s a city girl,

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