A guardian angel has no problem with
speed or distance. As a spirit being I can guard my charge continually.
Continents, oceans, airplanes are not obstacles. Obstacles are demons. I’ve
been to this continent before, decades ago, and I expect to fight here again.
Physical, cultural progress may have been realized in the cities and even in
the villages along the rivers or deep in the jungles, but spiritual progress
does not exist. Progress is not the right word – growth, evolution,
advancement, steps forward – no. Repentance is what is needed – a turning
around. The demons will flee only then. I may have to fight.
Jedidiah knew he was being hard on
Jenna. He was confused more by his feelings than anything else. Holding her
hand that first hour of the flight was more than just a way to ignore his fear
of flying. He was comforted, yes, but he caught such a buzz, his heart racing
at first, his body reacting quickly, that he thought he must be really falling
for her.
The news about Allison should have been
just as exciting. He had built a fantasy around rescuing her and now to hear
that she had suffered so terribly, been pregnant, given birth ... he felt
childish and sadly inadequate.
The plane was minutes from landing and
he and Jenna hadn’t spoken in hours. One or the other had slept or had feigned
sleeping most of the night, as uncomfortable as it was in the confined space.
He had read his magazines and she had finished hers. They had eaten their meals
in silence though she had made a couple of attempts at humor. Jedidiah couldn’t
find anything funny right now. How should he act when he saw Allison? How
should he behave around Jenna?
“Look,” Jenna said, “I know you’re mad
at me. Please don’t be. I couldn’t stand for my, my best friend not to talk to
me for the next ten days.”
“I’m not mad. I just hadn’t thought
that ... well, it’s kind of shocking
that Allison has a baby and all. I . . .” he trailed off and shifted in his
seat. His stomach did a flip-flop as the jet rapidly descended. He could see
land out the cabin windows. He reached for Jenna’s hand. “We’re landing!” he
shouted, his ears stuffed up again.
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