Facing the Future by Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1998-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

SIX

New Lives

“HERE’S the thing,” Josey was saying, crying openly. “I knew all that channeling, crystal, New Age stuff had nothing for me, but I was desperate. I had not been to church since I was a little girl, but I remembered there was supposed to be a God who loved me.”

“Why didn’t you go back to church?” Vicki asked.

“I believed what everyone else was saying. People said the church was full of hypocrites, that institutionalized religion caused more problems than it solved, that God was in all of us and that we could find him within ourselves. In fact, if some could be believed, we could be gods ourselves. It just seemed to me that the closer I got to finding the god within me, the farther I felt from a real God, if there was one. Then someone invited me to a Bible study. That wasn’t scary. It didn’t sound like church. It was just a place to read the Bible and talk about it.”

“What have you learned so far?” Vicki asked.

“That’s just it. I think I’ve got all the basics. If I can just accept the fact that there’s nothing I can do to make this happen, I’ll—”

“Make what happen?” Tom Fogarty said, suddenly interested. “What is it exactly that you want to happen, hon? You want to make sure there’s pie in the sky by and by for you, or do you just want to cover all your bases so you’ll get to see your boys again, in case they’re in heaven?”

Josey turned to face him, and Vicki wondered if she was angry. She didn’t appear to be, though she may have had a right to be. “No, Tom. I don’t know. I want to be sure, and I want to know God. I have no idea where my boys are, but I have this feeling that if I can know God, I can know that too.”

“I just worry,” Tom said, “that this is simply another short-term interest of yours, something with an ulterior motive. Seeing your boys again is a worthy goal, of course, but you see what I’m saying.”

“I’ll tell you one thing, Tom,” Josey said, “this is no phase, no novelty. I’m desperate for God, and I won’t stop searching till I find him. It’s about the boys, yes, and it’s about heaven, yes, and it’s about fear over being left behind. But forgetting all that, I have to believe God knows me, knows about me, cares about me. If he loves me, I want to know it and know him.”

Ryan surprised Vicki by talking directly to Tom. “What do you think, Sergeant Fogarty? Do you think we’re all wrong about the disappearances?”

“I don’t know what to think, Ryan. One of my detective partners, Eddie Edwards, I think he’s really intrigued by all this. He thinks he has it figured out because so many people who talked about the Rapture were among those who disappeared. But there are also a lot of people missing who never talked about it.

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