Practicing What You Preach by Vanessa Davis Griggs

Author:Vanessa Davis Griggs
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780758232229
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2009-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

—Philippians 2:3

It had now been three weeks since Marcus had come to my house that Saturday. The longer I had put off calling him, the harder it became. What to say now?

Oh, I was going to call you that first day after you came over but I got cold feet. Then I was about to call you when my phone rang. It was my friend Nae-nae, and she needed me to keep her children while she went out of town to a funeral. She came back on Tuesday night, but by the time she’d gotten her children and gone home, it was around ten at night. I don’t like calling people I don’t know that well after ten. So I thought I would call you Wednesday after I got home from work and before we both left to attend Bible study.

Then Tiffany—that’s the friend I spoke to when we went to Bible study that night, the woman with the two little girls who was pregnant—anyway, she called me as soon as I walked in the house. In fact, she’d called several times before that but I hadn’t gotten home yet. She was in labor, and of course her husband was nowhere to be found. She has those two adorable little girls with no family in town to help her. She’s sort of like me—hates to bother others, so she rarely asks for help even when she needs it.

So I went over and took her to the hospital. She had the baby, a little boy. I had to take the girls home because there was still no husband to be found and visiting hours were over. Her husband didn’t drag himself home until sometime after midnight.

Tiffany came home from the hospital on Saturday. I called her Sunday evening and learned she was there by herself with those children. Darius supposedly went to get something from the store. Apparently he got lost along the way because he had been gone for an hour by the time I got there. He came back three hours later. It took him four hours to pick up a bottle of medicine and a few other items Tiffany needed.

Then I was going to call you on Monday, but that meant it had been over a week and I would need to try and explain why it had taken me so long. The cycle seemed to begin all over again with different situations popping up here and there, always someone needing something.

I could have called and told him all of that, but I didn’t. He frequently came to the doctor’s office where I worked. I decided I would talk to him then. Funny, I hadn’t asked him in all the time we’d spoken what he did that required him to visit with Dr. Brewer so often. I hate getting too deep into other folks’ business. I figure if they want you to know, they’ll tell you.

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