===chapter two===






---YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH GOD MAY NOT REALLY BE READY TO GIVE IT TO YOU, YOU ARE HIS CHILD AND HE SOMETIMES SAYS "OK!"..THEN, HE LETS YOU TAKE OVER AND REAP YOUR HARVEST...
THE VEHICLE WAS HEALED, IT IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN EXPLAIN IT.

WE FINALLY GOT AROUND TO GETTING IT TO A MECHANIC...HE KEPT IT FOR ALMOST A WEEK, AND DID A FEW MINOR THINGS, CHARGED US A SMALL BILL, AND WHEN WE GOT IT BACK, IT WAS RUNNING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE IT WENT GAGA!!

THE LANDSCAPE, THE PORCH, AND THE OCCASIONAL DROP IN, WAS GETTING KIND OF OLD, NOT SAYING I EVER WANTED TO GO BACK TO MISSOURI, THINGS WERE STILL WORKING OUT BUT WE WANTED "FAST FORWARD" AND THEY WERE GOING "GOD'S TIME" AGAIN...WHICH IS NEVER BAD WHEN YOU LOOK BACK AND REALLY THINK ABOUT IT.

SO..WITH ALL THESE THOUGHTS ROLLING AROUND IN MY HEAD, I FINALLY WENT TO THE PORCH, LOOKED AT THE PEAK STARING AT ME AND ECHOED, "UPLIFTERLAND, TAKE ME AWAY!!!..."

I COULD SEE THE MAILMEN, PLURAL COMING DOWN THE STREET WITH A CARAVAN OF VEHICLES, ALL BRINGING MAIL TO US....WOW...I HAD NEVER SEEN SO MUCH MAIL..EVEN MORE THAN THE SPAM IN ALL THE EMAIL ADDY NAMES I HAD EVER HAD COULD NOT BEGIN TO COMPARE WITH THE SACKS AND SACKS OF LETTERS FROM EVERY WHERE, ALL GOOD NEWS, NO BILLS, AND NO...I SAID "NOT ANY" JUNK MAIL...

SO, HOLLEY AND I SPENT TWO WHOLE DAYS GOING THROUGH THEM ALL AND LAUGHING, SMILING, PRAISING THE LORD, GIGGLING, JUMPING UP AND DOWN, I EVEN GOT SO EXCITED THAT I BROKE THE PORCH CHAIR AND WENT FLYING OVER THE EDGE, BUT FLOATED DOWN WITH THE HELP OF SOME ANGEL I THOUGHT I KNEW NAMED VIRGIL...

AT LAST, OUR NEEDS WERE BEING MET, AND PEOPLE WERE SITTING UP AND TAKING NOTICE THAT THE "KENNY MITCHELL FAMILY WERE IN TOWN!!!"

WE WERE INFORMED, BY ONE LETTER, THAT THERE WOULD BE A PARADE ALL THE WAY UP THE TUTONIC TRAIL (A WELL KNOWN PLACE THERE BUT HARD TO SPELL)... ANYWAY, IT WOULD BE IN HONOR OF THE FIRST MISSOURI FAMILY TO HAVE SENSE ENOUGH TO GET AWAY FROM THE DYING BOOTHEEL AREA AND FIND NEW LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE RED SOX.

...AND THEN AS MY FEET TOUCHED THE GROUND, UPLIFTERLAND FADED AWAY AND I WAS BACK ON NORTH STREET IN THE BERKSHIRES...

JIFFY AND T-REX WERE NOW WITH US AND WE WERE A COMPLETE FAMILY, IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE....

HEAT AND T-REX WERE ALMOST GLUED AT THE SIDE, ONE TIME BECAUSE T-REX GOT HOLD OF THE ELMER'S WOOD PASTE...BUT IT WAS EXCITING TIMES DAY AND NIGHT, AND THERE WAS NEVER A DULL MOMENT IN THIS NEW LAND OF OPPORTUNITY..

JIFFY HAD NOW COMPLETED MOST OF HER NURSE TRAINING AND SHE WAS HELPING WITH HER BROTHER, LEE, REMEMBER THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN IN THE AUTO ACCIDENT.

AND SHE OFTEN FOUND HER SELF GOING TO UPLIFTERLAND, TOO....SHE HAD TO YELL MUCH HARDER THAN ME BECAUSE HER PASS WAS OLD AND SHE HAD FORGOTTEN TO RENEW IT, BUT SHE STILL GOT IN WITH ENOUGH EFFORT...LIKE THIS PARTICULAR DAY, FOR INSTANCE...

JIFFY WOKE UP OUT OF HER DOUBLE KING SIZE BED AND ORDERED "DINGALINGALING" BREAKFAST-IN-BED, AFTERWARDS, BEING DRESSED IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SCRUBS SHE COULD FIND...

WHEN SHE ENTERED LEE'S ROOM, HE HAD HER DAILY SCHEDULE ALL READY FOR HER AND SHE LOOKED AT IT AND SMILED...IT SAID, "TODAY YOU WILL COMB MY HAIR AND THEN CHANGE MY TV CHANNEL AND THEN YOU ARE FREE TO DO AS YOU PLEASE!

LEE WAS A GENEROUS YOUNG MAN AND HE CARED ALOT ABOUT JIFFY AND TREATED HER VERY SPECIAL.

JIFFY HAD THE NEWEST OF CELL PHONES THAT WAS SO EASY TO OPERATE.
SOMEONE JUST HAD TO CALL YOU, AND THEIR MESSAGE WAS PLANTED INTO YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR REPLY COULD BE SENT BACK TO THEM THROUGH YOUR BRAIN WAVES, TOO.

SOMETIMES, JIFFY'S BRAIN WOULD GET SO FULL THAT SHE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND BLOW OUT ALL THE EXCESS JUNK MAIL AND FINISHED CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE ROOM FOR MORE OF THE BRAIN WAVES TO OPERATE CORRECTLY.

MOM WAS ANOTHER WHO STARTED VISITING UPLIFTERLAND MORE THAN SHE HAD IN THE PAST.....ONE OF HER TYPICAL VISITS WAS LIKE THIS....

SHE HAD TWO WINDOWS IN HER ROOM, THAT SHE KEPT WIDE OPEN AND LOVED TO TALK WITH THE PEOPLE, WHETHER SHE KNEW THEM OR NOT, AND THEY ALL RESPONDED POSITIVELY, SO BEFORE LONG SHE HAD WAITING LINES AT HER WINDOWS, PEOPLE TALK TO HER AT LEAST 10 TO 12 HOURS A DAY...

SHE BARELY HAD TIME TO EAT AND GO TO THE RESTROOM...BUT SHE LOVED IT!!!

SHE NO LONGER REQUIRED VERY MUCH FROM US!

WHEN SHE WAS IN UPLIFTERLAND MODE, SHE WAS SPRINGY AND LAUGHING ALL THE TIME, AND SHE WOULD SHUT HER PHONE OFF BECAUSE SHE JUST DIDN'T HAVE TIME FOR CALLS WHEN ALL THOSE LIVE PEOPLE WERE AROUND HER ALL THE TIME.

...BUT BACK TO REALITY...

WE HAD ONLY BEEN IN THE EAST NOW FOR ABOUT 3 MONTHS, MANY CHANGES STILL TO BE MADE, AND WITH YOURS AND OUR PRAYERS...UPLIFTERLAND AND BERKSHIRES WOULD BE ONE IN THE SAME, EVENTUALLY...

UNTIL THAT TIME, WE COULD ALWAYS CALL FOR---UPLIFTERLAND...TO TAKE US AWAY...IF ONLY FOR A WHILE!!!



--- [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 ® sept2008 by Uplifterland Ministries.]

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