‘So you see children, we’re coming to our moment in time. Oh yes. We are about to rise up into our greater glory. I can just feel it. Can’t you?

Oh yes, children, there’s a great moment coming when we say, ‘Enough. We are not going to put up with any more of your bullshit’.

‘That’s when it stops. That’s the moment things turn around for us. Removes the uncertainty. Yes sir. Let’s us get on with life in a happy, merry way.

‘Oh, won’t the skies grow bright on that day? That’s why no matter how scary that day might look to you from where we are now, you know, with all the uncertainty and whatnot, it’s a day to look forward to, and we are here to celebrate this coming day.

‘Oh, I know! I know you’re mad. You’re percolating like a pot of coffee, and if they keep turning up the heat, you’re going to explode all over the place. That’s just how you feel. Oh, I know, I know.

‘But you’re also thinking, ‘does this explosion have to be as chaotic, as it looks to be right now? Couldn’t we organize things a little better and maybe come out as a wave, descending on all evil?’ Oh, I know that’s what you’re thinking. I’ve thought it too’.

‘Well I think we can do this. I think we can organize this day of celebration, so little pieces of you aren’t splattered on the wall.

‘The time’s coming when you have to decide. That’s the first thing you have to do. You, child, must decide in your mind if you are a ‘Have’, or a ‘Have Not’, and what you going to do about it. If you’re a young one like little Johnny over here, you’re a ‘Have Not’. All of you, including the rich are ‘Have Not’s’. There’s so many things that can get you, it’s almost sad to go into. Climatic and economic upheaval; more pandemics on the way; the brutality of war and the fear of conscription. All this at your door day after day. Why do we treat our children this way? Ask yourself that parents. You’re responsible for them in this world. Why have you let it get to this point?

‘Are you one of those people who feel the worlds closing in on you? Taking everything you got, and you can’t give anymore? At the same time, getting less for what you pay for? Look at all the wonderful medical technology coming our, and they’re pricing us out of it. Why they’re pricing us out of a pound of butter these days. $7.00 for a pound of butter. Goodness me. When will it end?

‘Well, let me tell you, if you’re feeling these pressures, you’re a ‘Have Not’. The world’s going to get you.

‘If you fear losing the security you have right now, you’re a ‘Have Not’. You know who you are. You’re the one who see’s something up the road that’s going to derail you, and change your life forever, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe you’re going to lose your high paying job to technology’.

‘Oh Lord. There’s so many of us., aren’t there?

‘Now children, that’s the first thing you do. You decide what side of the fence your standing on, because you definitely are on one side or the other. A side that is not going to change, until we get together and change it. So children, if you are a ‘Have Not’ look for others and find your community. Those folks are all over the internet. You need to find out what they’re doing to get past this terrible time. Prepare for the Rapture, when all rise up and this new height brings change to our world and ourself.

‘You’re brain changes. That’s what they say, when the Rapture comes.’

‘Did you know a gene in your body can leap? Now, I’m not telling you a stretcher here. They’ll just jump into action when you need them. Say you wake up one morning and you find yourself in the middle of a dessert, in just your pajama’s, and now you have to walk all the way through the dessert without water. Well once your body figures out the lay of the land, a gene will leap into action to conserve your fluids to help you get through the tough time. Same thing happens from one species to another. Fish share genes all the time.

This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

‘Now that’s what we’re going to be children. We’re going to be like fish, and leap into a whole new species of humanity.

‘Oh Lord, what will that day bring?’

Reverend Al took a pull off his pipe using his handheld gardening torch. A huge burst of cloud appeared when he exhaled. ‘I wonder what it will be like when we jump to the other side? Do you think we’ll just be lazing around on a cloud drinking mint juleps? Wouldn’t that be lovely?'

Reverend Al took another hit from his pipe. ‘I don’t think it’s going to be like that though’, he said holding the smoke in his lungs and squeaking our the words.

‘I think it’s going to be better than that if you can imagine something better than drinking mint juleps,’ he said after exhaling.

‘I think it’s just freedom. Freedom to be yourself. Freedom to do this or that, or whatever you want. Freedom from uncertainty.

‘And we’ll all be together, happy as clams, so we can still do stuff together, but we don’t have to and be just as happy.’

‘Oh, the places we’ll go from there.

‘Johnny, I’m getting hungry. Did you bring along some sandwiches for us?’

‘No,’ Johnny replied. ‘I brought gardening equipment, because that’s what Mom thinks we’re doing when we come here.’

‘Well, I don’t know why she wouldn’t pack some sandwiches, seeing as we’re going to be here for the better part of the day. Just seems like good parenting to me’.

‘If I had good parenting I wouldn’t have to spend most of my life recording an old dope fiend. I’d be out playing.’

Reverend Al considered the logic behind Johnny’s argument. It didn’t add up. ‘There’s that hot dog stand not too far from here. I bet your Mom gave you money for hot dogs?’

‘No’. Johnny replied defensively.

‘Oh really?’ Reverend Al noticed Johnny’s reluctance, and jumping on it. ‘Show me. Empty out your pockets’.

‘No. I don’t have to.’

Reverend Al did not respond. He just stared at Johnny knowingly, like he had caught him in an act of lying. From past experience, the good Reverend knew Johnny’s guilt would cause him to crack.

‘She only gave me enough to get myself a hot dog,’ Johnny confessed.

‘Oh yeah. No drinks. Maybe a little extra for some pop corn later? Show me’.

Johnny reluctantly pulled out a twenty dollar bill.

‘Why Johnny we can get a feast with that much money. Four hot dogs if we just drink water. That would make three for me and one for you. Now give me the camera equipment and I’ll carry on here talking to God’s chosen people while you’re off doing this saintly deed. Make sure you put mustard and onions on mine, unless they have sauerkraut, then two with mustard and onions, and one with mustard and sauerkraut’.

Reverend Al grabbed Johnny’s cellphone. ‘Now get. And don’t forget to bring a couple cups of water back. Old Reverend Al gets thirsty when he’s gardening’.

Johnny held back. ‘It’s my money. I’ll do with it what I want.’

‘Oh, you will, will you?,’ Reverend Al countered. ‘Well don’t forget I have your cellphone, and I will interrupt this programming to destroy it if I don’t get my hot dog’s. Now what do you think of that?’

Jimmy got up in a huff and started towards the hot dog cart.

‘Probably gave you that twenty, so you could buy both you and me a hot dog and pop, didn’t she?’

Reverend Al figuring what the money was originally for caused Johnny to involuntarily look back, showing Reverend Al he was onto something. ‘Ah, you see!’ Reverend All proclaimed. ‘It’s a good thing you have me around to keep you on the straight and narrow. I lay awake worrying what you’d become if you didn’t have me around to save you. Now get a move on!’

‘Do you see children how important it is to have a guiding hand like old Reverend Al in life? That little scamp would have spent all our money on just himself if I wasn’t here to help him see the righteousness of the situation.

‘Now where were we? Oh yeah what a party we’re about to have.

‘Now listen. This is what they say is going to happen to us when the Rapture comes. This is what they tell me. Coming from the other side in scripture. That’s where this is coming from. So you ready? We’re going to have free movement throughout the entire universe, and no one can touch us or hurt us. We’re going to be free as birds, and we’re going to fly like starlings together throughout the universe. We’re going to travel through space and time as one. I shit you not.

‘That’s what they say,’ Reverend Al claimed. ‘I heard it. Someone once told me this.’

‘What do you think it means to never have a heavy heart?’ Reverend Al asked. ‘My that would put a spring in your step. Not a single trouble in the world, just doing the things that bring you joy. Oh my. Just think how jolly it will be.’

‘Now listen children. The times has come. Something’s coming soon that’s going to be the last straw for all of us. I don’t know what it is, but it’s coming, probably here now, and it’s going to lift us up into the Rapture, So be ready children. Look for the time to act, for it is here’.