What happened at this church

What happened at this church may not stay here at this church for too long as is expected.
The things that happened at this church will make you want to shout sometimes, and not for hallelujah. But shout you will anyway. Read Gervis’ story as it is told in the Manley book, under the caption: Amy’s lost and found. Oh the things that are likely to show up in a church lost and found! or just in a church. period. 

An inside church story

“So, she would have met up with this man who came to church, with scars of a different sort, Gervis was his name. He would have met up with her when he did took to the church life as a replacement for his previous tug life. Gervis was a man with a badly scarred past but he has a heart of gold, and he is at this point? In the church. 
What sister Mills, thought of him, who she thinks he was and what he was after, conflicted greatly with who he really was and what he was really after. 
She was into the finer things of life alright, and he? He was going about trying to refine the thing, or a couple of things which he thought was the only thing or things, that really mattered in life after all. He was out to save himself, and his son. He wanted to remake himself and to win custody of his son.”

Here is today’s excerpt from Chapter nine and episode 9

Chapter Nine
Amy's lost and found

…It was an unholy Meetup, although it had happened right there in the holiest of places: in church. She was recovering from something, something that left her with visible as well as audible scars... And he, he was recovering from something too, something somewhat of a different sort, a scarred past, most of which cannot face the light of day. But he has a heart of gold, or more like, a heart of diamond, a diamond heart. As a matter of fact. Many folks said that it was the pressurized process which he had been through, and have managed to survive, that had brought him to the current state of being, and make him out to be the ever so in-demand person which he had managed to become.
Gervis was a master musician (among other things,) and he was also a devote worker in the church. He had in recent times been rising up the holy ladder of ministry to become the secretary-treasurer for the men's fellowship department, he was also mentoring boys into becoming better men, better husbands, and better fathers.
Brother Gervis was fast becoming an icon and a staple in the church. The women revered him, including my mother and my sister Amy.
Most of the young women just wanted to get their claws into him, including my sister Amy.
Folks said that it was the women that had drawn him into the church, chiefly my sister Amy.
That's what the women in my bloodline seemed to do - always, they go off to church, dragging their men folks along with them, kicking and screaming, that was what mom did to her children, that’s exactly what she did to me.
The very first chance that these selfsame men folks would get to get out of there though, that is what they usually do, just like me, that was exactly what I did.
We usually go off searching for some other types of women folks, the types who are often times ever so very delighted to go dragging us off into some other, much more fun directions, doing much more fun things, screaming yes, but not necessarily kicking, at least not that much nor as hard as we were before. These are the types of women folks who tend to get my mojo going every time, these are the types which I adore. If I love them? Yes, you have guessed it right, I do.
So, sister Mills was sitting in the front row seats, in terms of her getting the first pick at brother Gervis, she was on top of the pile so to speak, and therefore, she had the first pick at the lottery draw to get at him, in theory. And so, she did just that. She ventured out to exercise her option, at the very first chance which presented itself.

A master church musician was Bro. G

Brother Gervis was on the keyboard doing his usual thing - playing an interlude, while the testimony service dragged on. It was Sister Mills' turn to testify and she wasn't going to miss this opportunity to stake out her claim.
Sister Mills was a woman with scarred beauty - yes, but a survivor she was too, she was recovering from cancer, cancer of the throat, which slightly altered the tone of her voice but other than for that, she was as classy as they come. Always immaculately dressed, well-spoken other than for the tiny speech impediment, and she was always chauffeured around in her big Lincoln Town car, by her ever-so-loyal and attentive chauffeur - Gus, also known as Angus, or is it the other way around? What difference does it make?
So then, she met up with this man who came to church, with scars of a different sort, Gervis was his name. Or was it Gervis who had met up with her? when he did took to the church life as a replacement for his previous tug life? Gervis was a man with a badly scarred past but he has a heart of gold, and he is at this point? In the church.
What she, sister Mills, thought of him, who she thinks he was and what he was after, conflicted greatly with who he really was and what he was really after.
She was into the finer things of life alright, and he? He was going about trying to refine the thing, or a couple of things which he thought was the only thing or things, that really mattered in life after all. He was out to save himself, and his son. He wanted to remake himself and to win custody of his son. They, Brother Gervis and sister Mills, run into each other there in the church, she had been watching him for quite some time it would seem, just like all of the rest of those women was - because, after an otherwise insignificant verbal exchange between them both, where he had inquired into the cause of the neck scar, the inner thoughts, her inner thoughts which were there, incubating inside of her, and the desires which she had cherished for months, years probably, those desires suddenly popped out like chicken from the hatch, and she did run with it. He followed along for a while, trying to glean whatever insights he could garner on the inner workings of the mind of the members of the opposite sex and to try and figure out what makes them function. His findings, what little of it that can face the light of day, was as could be expected, very controversial, to say the least.
He had merely asked about the scar, how did she come to have them, she took hold of a microphone and ventured to announce that: "he wants to check me out." And then went on, on a show and tell episode, bearing her soul in what one might conclude was a misguided effort at winning the man. Will she?


To be continued.
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Extra, extra. On this day in history 

Jan. 31st

1983 - The wearing of seat belts in cars became compulsory in Britain. 
1983 - JCPenney announced plans to spend in excess of $1 billion over the next five years to modernize stores and to accelerate a repositioning program. 

1946 - A new constitution in Yugoslavia created six constituent republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia) subordinated to a central authority, on the model of the USSR. 

1876 - All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.

1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States. 

1606 - Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I.