SECOND BLESSING is available at Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle. Same words, but different prices because some of the words are red.
The hardcover edition does contain red. The minimum printing price is the reason for the price.
The paperback edition doesn’t contain red and those words are a faded black losing the overall impact.
The Kindle Edition does contain red words adding to the impact. Whatever choice is made I hope you enjoy my book!
The organ bellows shrills and groans. Revival at the Damascus Southern Baptist Church has begun. Mildred, sitting in the pew dedicated to her late husband, shakes her head inside and sighs. I was hoping Revival would rejuvenate me this year, but that would take a bigger miracle than the parting of the Red Sea and turning water into wine combined. It’s going to be a mess, a complete disaster.
Francis Paul Day, an ex-alcoholic junkie, is the speaker. For Mildred this is beyond blasphemy. And, if matters weren’t horrible enough, that heathen has the same christened name as my beloved son! A heathen not worthy to spit polish my boy’s boots!
Mildred’s Second Blessing confirms her holier-than-thou belief, but after choking on Communion she doubts. Will her faith crumble because of a family secret?
CHAPTER and VERSE
(Title and a quote from Mildred)
PRELUDE TO A DISASTER
I was hoping Revival would rejuvenate me this year, but that would take a bigger miracle than the parting of the Red Sea and turning water into wine combined. It’s going to be a mess, a complete disaster.
THAT HEATHEN SPEAKS
Mama said she couldn’t hear herself toot. Too bad I’m not that way now.
SHAMELESS SACRILEGE
Open Communion with that heathen helping! Is he totally insane! Who does Alex think we are, plebeian Methodists? This won’t be tolerated! He might as well spit on the Elements! Wait until the Lord and I are through with him!
HOLIER THAN THOU
God blessed me with a Second Blessing for a reason. He doesn’t dispense His gifts willy-nilly. Even Jesus knew His limitations, confined to dusty godforsaken corner of the world. Bet you Mary had fits struggling to keep that house clean.
SEEING RED
You’re the kind of hypocrite good Christians have been warned about since the dawn of time. As Mama always said, “Although atheists are dead wrong, they’re sincere in their disbelief.”
THE VISIT
Some make missing a pleasure, like a toothache.
MORE RED
You could spend the rest of your life on your knees begging and it still wouldn’t help. I’m sure good dead Christians everywhere are spinning in their graves!
SAND OF THE SEA
My trials and tribulations are as many as the sand of the sea.
CRY WOLF
The ability to strike terror into hearts just by being me is a guilty pleasure.
CHRIST HAUNTED
I’m suffering more than Job!
SURPASSING UNDERSTANDING
How can I hate my son? My tears will fill every ocean twice.