Chapter 4, Page 172, 173

[3] “More than anything I wish I could reunite you with your family. But I can’t, My hands are tied. But I am trying to do my very best to help you. Please be patient with me and help me to understand exactly what you’re going through….”

Jared then paused to see if I would respond to his apology, but I just couldn’t. Giving up, I then heard Jared walking away from the door. I stayed put for the rest of the night with the feeling all was lost, and I cried myself to sleep.

I was suddenly aware I was an innocent youth once again who had only eight years to my credit and filled with the wholesomeness of my delicate years.

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Chapter 4, Page 173

[5] With childlike faith, I came to be aware of the soft golden glow filtering through the elegantly laced vast windows, which seemed not only an agreeable source of warmth, but also most pleasing to the senses…..Feeling wide-eyed and full of surprises, I carefully pulled back on one of the lovely window dressings, and with a trusting heart, I hoped to see the sweetest revelation…..But instead I was shocked to find a most hideous beast and vile creature receiving me with a frightful grin. He was pleased with himself for deceiving me with his deceitful lies……there would be no mistaking him to be a fiend straight from the pit of hell…..who then proudly revealed a vast darkened realm of emptiness lying just beyond the windowpane. Even my innocent sensibilities could make out this was a place of Unhappy Endings—-a place set apart for all those who had chosen to believe his accursed lies!

Author’s Commentary

Lily is Mesmerized and with child like faith she carefully runs her hand over the golden silken shimmering bed-coverings. Capturing her full attention is the soft and friendly glow creating the phenomenal light, and beckoning her to come.

The vast windows reaching almost to the high ceilings, she perceives nothing menacing on her approach, and hoping to see a most merry sight, she begins to pulling back on the graceful drapery material.

But no one likes to be deceived, and unfortunately for Lily she had  succumb to be a victim of treachery. Looking beyond the windowpane lie a fiendish creature mocking Lily’s trusting SOUL with a twisted grin. For what lie further  beyond the creature was a vast realm of obscurity. At first glance Lily was in shock, but prudence was soon to follow.

Blessed with Christian instruction from  her early youth. Lily held true to the loyal righteousness of the Holy Scriptures, and ringing true at the moment as it is written in Genesis 50:20, But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

On this one night perhaps Lily’s youthful innocence was tricked by the enemy that ‘Old Serpent,’ but prevailing the gloom and doom  deceitfully paraded in her dream. Lily awakened with a sigh of relief, and on that same night. She may have ended up turning on all the lights and sleeping on the living room sofa. Yet comforted by a faithful prayer she falls back to sleep in the blessed assurance she is a daughter of the Most High God.