An Interview with God by Robert Noland

Author:Robert Noland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: drama, mystery, inspirational, faith, theology, christian, motion picture, film, religous, novelization
Publisher: Robert Noland

Chapter Five

Realizations & Revelations

To say that Paul is rattled is most definitely an understatement. This man, this entity, this deity, whatever He is . . . just told him he’s living on borrowed time. Suddenly, the problems with Sarah, Afghanistan, Matt’s crisis, his work, everything else is shoved into the backseat, onto the backburner, every analogy he can think of that means being pushed to the rear of the line. Anger, sadness, and fear overwhelm him. While he’s already in a totally heightened state of emotions, just when he feels like he has driven his feelings to his all-time personal limit, now there’s something more.

God did not say how or exactly when it would happen, so riding his bike on the busy New York streets now has new meaning. Everything around him, everyone he sees, feels like a threat. Will a car run a light and hit him? Or will he be so distracted that he rides into traffic in a self-fulfilling prophecy? Is one of the people on the streets actually a shooter or wielding a knife, and he’s about to be in another tragic international news story? Is he terminally ill and just doesn’t know it yet?

Accompanied by labored and erratic breaths, Paul’s adrenalin surges through his body and anxiety confounds his thoughts. Just then, the light above him turns from yellow to red and he hits the brakes hard. So hard that the back wheel pops up slightly as he lunges forward on the bars, his messenger bag sliding around from his back to his right side. As the cars on the through street fly by, he looks around nervously.

On the opposite corner, a “ghost bike” memorial adorns the sidewalk, marking the place where a biker was killed, likely hit by a car. It’s painted a pasty, ghoulish white, surrounded by ugly candles and dead flowers. A sight Paul has seen many times over the years and always ignored, now suddenly becomes a mix of creepy and oddly cruel. Have even the people who knew this person already forgotten? Yesterday life felt chaotic but endless, yet today just seems futile and fleeting.

Finally, Paul arrives at his office building. He’s safe. For now. Even locking up his bike feels foreign, as if he’s trying to recall how to make the ends connect. After hearing the familiar click, he removes his helmet and turns to walk through the glass doors of the front entrance. He catches a glimpse of himself in the reflection on the doors, then pauses, checking himself. Frowning at his image, he slowly shakes his head and with frustration pushes the door open. There doesn’t seem to be a single category of life where he isn’t disgusted.

Walking to his four-by-four cubicle in the fishbowl, he recalls, I did pray for help. I remember doing that. But why when God shows up do things feel like they’re only getting worse? What is that about?

At his desk sits a woman in her mid-twenties. Dark shoulder-length hair, attractive, and well dressed.

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