Divine Destiny

Hell is shaking. Evil Spirits are trembling. Satan summons his demons. “Soon another divine destiny shall be born unto this earth. It must be stopped. Go! Go! Stop it. Kill that destiny!”

Angel 1: “Shall I reveal the name or would you like to do the honors?”

Angel 2: “I shall.”

Angel 2 walks to the sleeping woman. He bends down and whispers into her ear, “And she shall be called Destiny.”

Big Mama moans softly in her sleep. She senses a presence and jerks up abruptly.

Angel 1: “peace.”

Big mama settles down to a peaceful sleep.

Simone is having a card party. They are cussing and slamming cards all over the place. A commercial comes on television and in the momentary quiet they all hear the young pastor on television loud and clear. He speaks with such authority and all turn their attention to the commercial. “When Jesus comes, where will you be? Spiritually that is. Come join us for service. Remember Jesus is coming soon.”

 Bernard stands in front of the television holding a chicken wing. He comments. “Yall know if Jesus came tonight, we would all be left behind.”

K.C. opens a fresh beer. “Man, why you got to go messing up the atmosphere with all that gloom and doom. Ain’t nobody trying to hear that.”

Rachel sits at the table shuffling cards. She hides the big joker under her napkin. “Gloom and doom for you. I go to church.”

K.C. laughs. “Just ‘cause you go to church on Christmas and Easter, don’t make you no saint. Besides I ain’t no Bible scholar but I know enough to say that you can be sitting right smack in the middle of the church when Jesus comes and yo’ black butt will still be sittin’ there when he left, right smack in the middle of tribulation.

Destiny abruptly wakes up. Last night she dreamed of Dough Boy. She could vaguely remember Dough Boy swimming. It was like he was drowning. Just when it seemed like he had gone under, something snatched him back up to the surface. She could clearly see his mouth moving. At first she could not make out what he was saying. Then it was very clear. He was saying, “Let me die.” It seemed like there could have been fire or flames in the dream. The dream seemed so real.