The Other Side of Darkness by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76945-9
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2010-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

18

Somehow I pretend to be normal during the next few days. And yet I feel as if I’m walking around in a stupor sometimes … as if I’m not even real. I don’t know how to describe it exactly, but it frightens me. I fear that my spirit is infected and that it’s making me sick. I know I’m housing demons. And I know I must do something about it, but I feel so helpless. Finally, on Saturday, after I told Rick I was having bad cramps and needed to rest, he decided to take the girls on an outing.

Had I known from the onset that this outing was to get pumpkins at a nearby farm, I might’ve made a quick recovery from my cramps and protested. As it was, I felt too weary to fight back. I had already stated several weeks ago that I wanted no signs of Halloween in this house, that it was Satan’s holiday and not something that needed to be gloried in. But once again I was outvoted, and right now they are off slogging through the mud in search of pumpkins.

It’s bad enough that we still have that cat in the house. Rick fell for it right away, declaring that we needed a cat since he’d been having trouble with mice in the garage. So the very next day, despite the fact that I posted Found Cat signs throughout the neighborhood, Rick went out and got a cat box, a giant bag of litter, food, and even a flea collar. The little black beast is still sleeping in Sarah’s doll bed, but I’m afraid I’ll have to put my foot down about that. My dad made that doll bed for Sarah not long before he passed away. It seems wrong to allow it to be defiled by a cat. A cat that may very well be full of diseases. Especially if, like my family claims, it’s a stray or the offspring of some feral cat. And vet bills aren’t cheap.

I tried to put my foot down on naming this cat, but once again I was powerless. Why should that surprise me?

“She’s been here four days,” Rick announced just this morning as he cuddled the black kitten with Sarah and Mary looking on. “And it doesn’t look like anyone is claiming her. Therefore, I’m going to name our cat. Since she arrived the week of Halloween, I’m calling her Spooky.”

“Spooky!” said Mary. “That’s perfect, Dad.”

“Hey, Spook,” Sarah cooed as she scratched the kitten’s head. “Welcome to the family.”

How can they be doing this to me? How can my own daughters, the ones who did spiritual warfare at church with me just a few days ago, now turn on me like this? Can’t they see that they’re being sucked in? Don’t they know that their father has no spiritual sense about these things? Of course, I have to admit, at least to myself, that I’m no better. The way I see it, we’re all headed for serious trouble.

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