Resurrected: The True Story of a Modern-Day Miracle by James Wright

Author:James Wright [Wright, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Living, Religion & Spirituality, Inspirational, Christian Books & Bibles
ISBN: 9781493181810
Amazon: B00K14WUKI
Barnesnoble: B00K14WUKI
Goodreads: 22126868
Publisher: Xlibris US
Published: 2014-04-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: Working Hard

Right after I got released on bail, I moved back home. I was now a lot nicer to be around, and I wanted to help everyone I met. When I came home, I realized Mom was sleeping in a separate bedroom from my father. My father did not say one word to anybody in the family. He would come home from work, go downstairs, and watch TV until he heard someone say supper was ready. He would come upstairs, fix himself a plate of supper, and go back downstairs and watch TV until he went to bed at about 9:00 p.m. My mom still made his lunch and left it in the fridge for him. She also did his laundry for him. Can you imagine how a family would ever function this way? My mother, me, and my sister living together as a family, and our father living in the house with us but not talking to anyone or looking at anyone or even caring at all about any of his family anymore. This seemed even worse than a stranger living with us. We avoided even talking about him because it would bring up such hurt feelings. This had to be the worst dysfunctional family in the world. Coming home to this reminded me of why I moved out at the age of sixteen.

Mom was happy to see me and so was my sister Trudy. That afternoon, me and Trudy caught up on the past two years. I told Trudy about living on the street and how hard it was having to support five people and protect them from bikers, rip-off artists, gangs, drug addicts, and drunks in the bars. I explained how I had to fight about two or three guys per week. Our street family had only the clothes on our backs. Everyone ate at Mr. Submarine or some other fast food place. We tried to make enough during the day to pay for a hotel or motel room each night, and some beer, smokes, and tokes to party each night. Then we would wake up to check out by eleven each morning, and do it all over again the next day.

I got a job working at a very large gas station and convenience store. There I met a guy named Jim who was the same age as me. The two of us became fast friends. I worked full time and I worked very hard every minute of every hour of every shift. After two months, I got promoted to shift supervisor, then Jim and I got an apartment together. It was now December and cold outside. We went skiing lots, and when not skiing, we would go and shoot pool.

Every day at work, a lunch truck would come around with a good-looking woman in her twenties as owner-operator. Every day, I would get a cup of tea and pay the lady fifty cents for that tea. Then when I tried to pay about a week later, she said, “That’s okay, it’s on me.

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