===chapter one===







THE LAST DAYS IN KENNETT WERE TOO PAINFUL TO EVEN MAKE LIGHT OF SO I CHOOSE TO CONTINUE THE CHRONICLES AT A MORE INTERESTING POINT.

WE WILL TAKE UP ON MOVING DAY FORWARD OR EVEN PARTTIME AROUND THAT DAY.

WE STUFFED AS MUCH OF OUR THINGS INTO THE MOVING VAN THAT WE COULD. IT WAS A BIG VAN, TOO AND WE STILL HAD TO GIVE STUFF AWAY AND LEAVE THINGS BEHIND.
BUT AFTER THE HEAT AND CONFUSION OF IT ALL, WE WERE ALL READY TO HIT THE ROAD AND HEAD EAST.

WE GASSED UP ALL THE VEHICLES WHICH COST BOOKOOS OF MONEY, WHATEVER THAT AMOUNT IS.
25 TO 30 MILES DOWN THE ROAD, OUR VEHICLE, THE KIA, JUST COUGHED AND SPUTTERED AND SAID "NO GO!"...

SO...WHAT WERE WE TO DO..? WHERE WERE WE TO GO..I MEAN IT WAS ALMOST 11 PM AND ON A SATURDAY NIGHT....YIPES....PLEASE LORD, TAKE ME TO UPLIFTERLAND RIGHT AWAY....


AS WE SIT ON THE HIGHWAY, LINED UP LIKE A CIRCUS AND ALL FEELING A LITTLE FREAKY, SUDDENLY A COP PULLED OVER AND CALLED A TOW TRUCK AND SAID, "I JUST HAPPENED TO START MY VACATION AND I WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO ESCORT YOU TO YOUR DESTINATION."

SO...HE HIT THE ROAD WITH HIS LIGHTS, SIREN, THE WHOLE COP BIT, AND WE FOLLOWED, WITH CAR-IN-TOW, AND MADE IT TO EAST IN LESS THAN EIGHT HOURS..

AND THEN...WE ALL WOKE UP.....


---AFTER A NIGHTS REST IN THE MOTEL, A BRIEF SWIM FOR THOSE THAT LIKE GETTING WET WITH THEIR CLOTHES ON, WE GOT A TOW BAR FOR THE MOVING VAN, HOOKED THE SICK CAR TO IT, AND LEFT OUT OF MISSOURI A DAY LATE AND A LOT MORE THAT A DOLLAR SHORT. BUT WE WERE HEADED EAST NOW AND IT WOULDN'T BE AS LONG AS IT ONCE WAS...

MY MOTHER, UNCLE AND HIS SON, AND OUR TWO DOGS RODE IN ONE CAR, HEAT AND HOLLEY AND ME AND THE TWO CATS TOOK THE OTHER CAR (WHICH WE ALSO HAD TO RENT), WE HAD SODAS AND SNACKS AND MAINLY ONLY STOPPED FOR RESTROOM BREAKS AND GAS...

BY THE WAY, HOLLEY'S SON TRAV AND BROTHER BUD DROVE THE MOVING VAN AND PULLED THE KIA.

WE HAD DRIVEN THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH, AND WHEN WE GOT THERE, FAMILY WERE WAITING TO HELP UNLOAD, HOLLEY AND I WENT WITH BUD AND TRAV TO RETURN THE RENTED VEHICLES AND WHEN WE GOT BACK THE VAN WAS EMPTIED, BUT THE FURNITURE AND BOXES WERE QUITE SCRAMBLED...I WAS TOO TIRED TO PULL OUT MY HAIR SO I WEAKLY YELLED, "UPLIFTERLAND, COME TO ME NOW!".....

WHEN I WOKE UP, THE WHOLE DOWNSTAIRS AREA WAS SPARKLING. THE FURNITURE WAS ALL IN PLACE AND THE BOXES HAD BEEN HAULED OFF BY A GROUP OF VERY GRATFUL HOBOS...(IM NOT SURE BUT I THINK THEY WERE GONE TO LIVE IN THEM FOR A WHILE, I AM SURE GOD WOULD HELP THEM WITH THAT FOR BEING SO NICE TO TAKE THEM OFF OUR HANDS.)

I LOOKED OUTSIDE, AND I COULD SEE THE TIP OF A MOUNTAIN FROM OUR PORCH AND IN THE BACK YARD WAS A NICE POND WITH RUNNING WATER.

I SMILED AND SIT ON THE PORCH, AND DRIFTED AWAY DUE TO THE COOLNESS OF THE BREEZE, WE HAD JUST COME FROM THE BOOTHEEL WHERE TEMPS WERE IN THE UPPER 90'S AND HERE IT WAS JUST PERFECT!

....AND THEN, AGAIN, I WOKE UP!....

DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS THE NIGHT BEFORE, THE FINAL PART OF THE MOVING HAD TO BE DONE IN A HURRY AND THINGS WERE SCATTERED AND STACKED ALL OVER THE PLACE.

WE APPRECIATED THE HELP, BUT WE WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT WOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO TO GET ALL THIS WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSE TO GO..

AND AS WE LOOKED OUT BACK IN THE DRIVEWAY...THERE SIT THE KIA IN ALL ITS GLORY..DEAD TO THE WORLD...AND WE HAD SO MUCH TO DO....GOD PLEASE HELP US....HE WILL...HE ALWAYS HAD....BUT PRAYER AND FAITH AND OUR HUMANNESS WERE GONNA BE PUT TO THE TEST THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.


[The following Series is based on True Happenings, but may be changed from time to time, to enhance the reading of the story.
Written by Kenny Mitchell and ® 2008 by Uplifterland Ministries.]

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