Reminders
The kids were up by the time Filly got home from her walk. She had listened to the entire first chapter of “One Shot” by Lee Child. In the story, the unidentified man was going to commit a crime and had put up an orange cone. As she had walked the day before, there was an orange cone put up in the street where she normally turned. As if the real world had the power to recreate what was happening in what was supposedly a fiction book. And the man was a sniper, an expert at his craft.
Filly had already decided that the main character in the book J.R. was a “computer” program. The “memories” that the program “experienced” were called “fragments” that blended together. When a crime was committed, that had to do with something in the system, Filly believed that “the program” was initiated to solve the problem.
The beginning of the second chapter, introduced a secondary “program” she thought, with the introduction of another computer entity (otherwise known as Alexa).
But Filly did not believe in the power of a computer or a computer program over God. Not even slightly. So she listened, but she was not convinced to be worried or afraid. Belief in God had everything to do with her confidence in a good outcome.
When she walked up to the house, after her ten thousand steps, Mister was waiting on the patio.
“WHERE WERE YOU” he asked?
“I was walking” Filly responded.
“I’m starving” Mister said.
“Lets go inside and I will get you some grapes because we are going to go to church and then go out to eat breakfast”, Filly said.
When they got inside, Little mister said “WAIT” and went running off to the kitchen. He returned with the bible. He handed it to Filly and said,
“I want to pick first”. Without her reminding him, Little Mister knew that every morning he was supposed to pick a daily bible verse randomly.
So he picked. Little Mister’s bible verse was about how the devil was coming but was mad because he only had a short time. “Good one!!” Filly said. She was grateful to hear it.
Then it was Taters turn to pick. Her bible verse was about how God had opened up the graves of his people and brought them up out of the graves. Good one! More people for God and his army always welcome. Filly thought of her dad, on the warpath for good and she smiled. If evil had been done in the past, and had unjustly taken out good people, they were now back in circulation, the past no longer hid.
Last it was Filly’s turn. Her bible verse was that all the sinners would die by the sword and that evil would not overtake or prevent. Filly looooved that.
Filly was of the mindset that if there was to be a battle between Godzilla vs. King Kong, the two computer entities, if bringing evil into the world, would probably destroy each other. Dinosaurs did not cease to exist by accident she thought. God always had a good plan. The bible verse was saying that even if there was a war between them, they could not do any evil to those who would do good.
Google vs. Alexa. Filly did not know and did not need to know. THAT was why she picked Bible verses. She wanted to know what God would say. She was not going to get caught up in the “fiction” mirroring.
This morning when she walked, there was a truck blocking the street. She barely squeezed by on her way to church. But she made it past. Would that also be in the book? She wondered?
But what ever God had in coming in, she was grateful.