===chapter four===






THE BEAUTY OF THE BERKSHIRES HAD IT'S DARK SIDE, TOO. THEY HAD WARNED ME ABOUT THE WINTERS, ICE, WEEKS OF SNOW, AND SUB ZERO TEMPS....BUT YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT TO REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE MEANING...WHEN THEY SAY...
THE ICE STORM COMETH....
BUT THE STRANGE THING WAS...THAT THE FIRST WINTER WE LEFT MISSOURI, THE BOOTHEEL AREA HAD THE WORST ICE STORM IN OVER 50 YEARS, AND WE WERE SITTING PRETTY HERE, IN JUST TYPICAL COLD, SNOWY WEATHER, WHILE MY ACTUAL TOWN WAS CLOSED DOWN FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS, WITHOUT POWER, NEVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE HAD WE EVER GONE ANY MORE THAN A FEW HOURS WITHOUT POWER.....

I ONCE AGAIN, SAID, "WOW...GOD WAS LOOKING OUT FOR US, ESPECIALLY WITH MOM AND LEE HERE...WE WERE ONCE AGAIN SPARED THE WRATH OF THE WEATHER...

FINALLY CABIN FEVER SET IN HERE...HOLLEY AND HEAT COULD NOT TAKE THE IMPERFECTIONS OF THE DOWNSTAIRS ANY LONGER, IT DIDN'T BOTHER ME MUCH BECAUSE I STAYED UPSTAIRS ON THE COMPUTER ALOT, BUT THEY DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE SOME CHANGES....AND I SAID...UPLIFTERLAND...TAKE ME AWAY....

...IT WAS A TYPICAL JANUARY MORNING, T-REX HAD BEEN PICKED UP BY HIS DAYCARE LADY AND WHEN HOLLEY AND I GOT OUT OF BED, OUR DOOR WAS LOCKED...WE HEARD NOISES DOWNSTAIRS, AND THEN STEPS UP THE STAIRS, HEAT TOLD US...NOT TO WORRY...EVERYTHING WAS TAKEN CARE OF...A WHOLE STAFF FROM BMAHFF....WHICH STOOD FOR...BUILD ME A HOUSE FOR FREE...HAD CHOSEN OUR HOME TO REDO...WE BOTH SMILED LIKE A KID AFTER A HAIR CUT WITH A SUCKER IN HIS MOUTH...AND ROLLED OVER AND WENT BACK INTO A DEEP SLEEP THAT LASTED FOR ABOUT THREE DAYS....

I HAD GAINED ABOUT 30 POUNDS OF FLUIDS FROM NOT GOING TO THE BATHROOM AND HOLLEY REFUSED TO LET ME EVEN COMMENT ON HER CONDITION.

SO WE BLURPED OUT OF BED SLOWLY, AND WENT TO THE SHOWER OF OUR CHOICE...WE HAD SIX SHOWERS UPSTAIRS DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION THAT HAD GONE ON DOWNSTAIRS...

WE HAD A GLEAM OF EXCITEMENT IN OUR EYES AS WE SLOWLY HEADED DOWNSTAIRS, BUT WE WERE MET HALF WAY BY HEAT WHO TOLD US...WE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE COMMERCIAL BREAK WAS OVER TO APPEAR....THEN I WOKE UP....

I LOOKED AROUND AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE IN BED....I HEARD MOANS AND GROANS COMING FROM SOME PART OF THE HOUSE....

I OPENED OUR BEDROOM DOOR AND HOLLEY AND HEAT WERE BOTH WARPED AND LYING CROOKED ON THE FLOOR FROM EXHAUSTION...

BUT I LOOKED AROUND AND THERE WAS A NEW FLOOR, NEW FURNITURE, A NEW PAINT JOB...IT WAS BEAUTIFUL....AND HEAT AND HOLLEY HAD DONE MOST OF THE WORK...

THANK YOU LORD FOR MY DEEP SLEEP AND THEIR NEVER-GIVE-UP ATTITUDE TOWARD FIXING THE LIVING ROOM...

I SKIPPED DOWN THE STAIRS AND SAID TO HOLLEY, "LOOKS LIKE YOU COULD USE AN UPLIFTERLAND ESCAPE....?" SHE COULD NOT DO ANYTHING BUT BARELY RAISE HER HEAD AND NOD TO THE POSITIVE....THAT'S ALL IT TOOK....AND HOLLEY SUDDENLY HAD THIS SPECIAL SMILE ON HER FACE THAT LET ME KNOW...SHE HAD FOUND HER WAY TO UPLIFTERLAND....

HOLLEY WAS DOING ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT ANY 20 YEAR OLD GIRL COULD DO....BUT THAT WAS A FEW DECADES YOUNGER THAN SHE WAS, AND GOD HAD EVEN GIVEN HER AN EXTRA ARM TO USE WHEN SHE GREW WEARY, WHICH SHE RARELY DID....

HEAT WAS BOUNCING AROUND LIKE A SUPERBALL IN A ROOM FULL OF CORNERS AND THINGS WERE BEING DONE SO QUICKLY IT WAS BLURRY TO MY EYES...

NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS THAT WE HAD NEVER MET WERE PITCHING IN, AND CARRYING THINGS, BUILDING, AND EVEN SOME WOMEN WERE PREPARING FOOD FOR THE WORKERS AND SERVING HOT DUNKIN DONUTS COFFEE EVERY 2 HOURS....IT WAS AMAZING!!!

IN A MATTER OF A DAY OR TWO, WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL DOWNSTAIRS AND THEY EVEN THREW IN AN WHAT THEY CALLED "ZOOM STEPS" A NEW INVENTION THAT YOU JUST PUT PRESSURE ON THE BOTTOM AND YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ON THE TOP...WOW...

AS HOLLEY KEPT SMILING, I JUST KEPT LOOKING AROUND, AND DISCOVERED THAT I WAS NOT IN UPLIFTERLAND AND HOLLEY WAS COMING HOME SOON...

..BUT .... GOD DID MAKE A WAY FOR US TO GET OUR LIVING AREA REDONE, AND NEXT PROJECT....THE KITCHEN AREA....AND I KNOW, THROUGH PRAYER AND FAITH AND MONEY THAT GOD KEEPS FLOWING IN....WE WILL HAVE THAT DREAM HOME THAT WE NEED SO BAD....EVEN IF WE HAVE TO GO TO HEAVEN, FINALLY TO GET IT...


... --- [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 ® mar09 by Uplifterland Ministries.]

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