Practicing What You Preach. Vanessa Davis Griggs
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Название: Practicing What You Preach
Автор: Vanessa Davis Griggs
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Религия: прочее
Серия: Blessed Trinity
isbn: 9780758244246
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Angela took out her business card, turned it over, and wrote her home address on the back. “Here is my card with all of my contact information on it, including my cell number.” Angela handed the card to her. “If you need anything, anything at all, or if something comes up, will you please get in touch with me?”
Arletha shrugged as she took the card. “I’ll take your card, but I don’t know anything more I can do for you. I can’t make it any plainer than that.”
Angela looked at Arletha one last time. She stepped outside, then smiled. “Thank you for your time. We didn’t mean to bother you.”
“Yeah. Sure,” Arletha said as though she didn’t really believe that. Suddenly, her countenance began to soften a tad. “And whether you believe this or not, I am sorry things didn’t work out for you. I’m not totally unsympathetic to your plight. And for the record, if I really were your grandmother, I’d be proud to have you as a granddaughter.”
“I’m sorry, too.” Angela put on her shades. “But I’ll keep praying, and we’ll see what God does next. I know that His ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts our thoughts. And like Great-granny always told me: there’s nothing too hard for our God.”
“You’re preaching to the choir now. Especially when you start talking about God,” Arletha said. “You just need to let God be God and start actually practicing what you preach. And if it’s God’s will, you’ll locate your grandmother, one way or another.”
Angela thanked Arletha for her time, apologized again for showing up the way we had, and said good-bye. A little bit despondent, we got back in the car.
“Well, you gave it your best shot,” Gayle said, patting Angela on her shoulder.
“Yeah. You followed up, and it turns out she’s not the one you were looking for,” I said.
Angela took off her shades. “Oh, y’all both think so?” She started backing out of the driveway. “That Arletha we just met, Arletha Brown, that’s my grandmother.” Putting the car in drive, Angela turned her head back and looked at Gayle. “Didn’t you see all of those little moles on her face and neck? Those are Black moles,” Angela said, facing forward, while alternating between looking at the road ahead and back at Gayle.
“Black moles? Okay, so her moles were black,” Gayle said.
“No, they were Black moles as in Pearl Black. Her oval-shaped face was Great-granny’s face if I ever saw it. I’ve seen pictures of Great-granny when she was in her sixties. I see the resemblance. That’s how Great-granny looked before she got older.”
“Angel, okay now. Be reasonable. I knew I shouldn’t have said anything to you about this. That’s what I get for listening to somebody else,” Gayle said.
“I am being reasonable. And for the last time, you were right to tell me, and you were right on time to tell me now,” Angela said. “But don’t worry. I’m not planning on letting any of this interfere with my wedding. Brent deserves more than that from me. I say that I trust God. I say that God will make a way out of no way. I say that my God will supply all of my needs according to His riches in glory. Well, Arletha Brown was absolutely correct earlier when she said I need to start practicing what I preach.”
Angela stopped at a red light and looked over at me. She grinned. “Melissa, when we get back, I need to put one more invitation to my wedding in the mail, pronto.”
“Dare I even guess to whom?” I asked.
She smiled. “You’re guessing correctly. I’m sending one to Ms. Arletha Brown.”
“She’s not going to come,” Gayle said with a tone of force along with a touch of weariness in her voice.
“Oh, she’s going to come. I just have a feeling that if I invite her, Ms. Arletha Brown will come.”
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