Victories Can Come In Surprising Ways

Victories Can Come In Surprising Ways

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va., there lived a young girl named Cathy, but all the other kids in school just called her Cashy. That was the nickname everybody had given her since she was always trying to make improvements and was getting paid for her suggestions so she reminded them of a cash register. Whenever they wanted her for something, they wouldn't call her name, but they would just say, "Che-ching" like a cash-register sound. She was a really big business entrepreneur who was always coming up with ways for the school to make some money for whatever it needed at the time. Because of that, she was voted Most Likely To Succeed out of the entire school. She was also getting offers from some of the finest colleges in the entire country including Yale, Harvard, Prinston, U. N. C., Duke and The University Of Danville. When her lower-class friends would ask her which school she wanted to belong to she told them, "Yale." Then they would all reply the same way which was, "Oh, alright. WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU WANT TO BELONG TO !!!!!"

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She appeared to have everything a your girl could ever want or need out of life so she could paint her own destiny. The only problem she had was deciding on which colors to attend. That was when she said, "I've, 'red' lots about those who, 'blue' it since they were too, 'yellow' to plant anything with their 'green'-thumb which is far from, "peach" y although, "white" now they're thoughts were pure, "gold" when they, "tan" make it to success's ladder, "white" away so they can put some, "green" peaces of paper with photos of Ben Franklin or even Woodrow Wilson on them, (since Wilson's on the $100.000.00 bill, which they don't make any more). That would be more then a, "pretty-penny's" worth of joy to anybody who happened to be fortunate enough to own one of them. I probably should stop lighting my cigarettes with them. Actually, I'm, "broke" and need to be fixed. I'm so poor I cannot even pay attention, but sure would love to, "pour" some champagne when I can get rich since it's so dull around here because I live in, "Dullsville U. S. A.," (that's another name for Danville, Va.). Here, excitement is watching weeds grow or watching paint dry. For real excitement we watch each other's hair get longer. It's what "real-fun" is in this city.

That's when some guy named Cuz came into town. knowing just how, "exciting" things were in that huge metropolis, he figured it was his job to perk up things. Unfortunately, the only thing that was what could be considered, "perkable" was to work in a coffee shop called Caffeine-Corner. Cuz knew how desperate that great big city needed some excitement. That's when he decided to play some guitar pieces in that restaurant. People would listen to the great music for a few seconds then they would put a dollar or 2 into that big guitar case which had a sign on it that read, "Tips." Many of the people who passed by would drop a dollar or 2 into the case. That benafitted everybody conserned. It increased the amount of people who went to that place, it helped the owner since he was getting some more business, it helped the Lord because it made his tithe bigger and it helped Cuz because he was fast becoming a local celebrity in town. Life was a lot happier for everybody concerned. That was terrific.

Then while Cuz was playing and earning right much mullah, which was all extra spending-money to buy things to improve his life, a mean guy by the name of Ralph The Rip-Off happened to hear the music being played. That's when he asked him for a permit. When Cuz told him he didn't have one, he asked him for 2 forms of identification. When the man learned Cuz only had an i. d., he cuffed him then took him to jail. They put him is a cell with 2 extraordinarily mean-looking men. As the warden put him in with those ruffians, they asked, "Well, well. What are you in for, red?" because he had pretty red-hair.

"Uh, playing my guitar without a permit," he replied backing away from the guy since he looked like a really mean kind of person.

"Oh, yeah?" he replied with a smiley mouth, but he had some mischievously evil-looking eyes, "Well, I'm in for killing 5 people, so 1 more isn't going to matter at all." he said. That gave Cuz an extremely uneasy kind of feeling about the guy. He moved slowly away, but he backed into another guy who looked even meaner then the first one.

"Welcome to the slammer, kind," he said with an even more evil kind of expression on his face. "Keep in mind I'm the boss around here and I've already killed 8 jerks, so one more won't matter to me at all." Then he punched Cuz in the chest really hard which knocked him down. That caused all the prisoners to laugh and clap. Some even said, "Hay! Way to go! Show that dumb kid who's boss around here! He'll learn!"

That made all the inmates laugh and clap. Cuz would have just laughed as well, but his arm was too sore from the hard punch.

When the warden came to bring in food, he was none too nice about it, so he slammed the big plates down on the table and asked Cuz his name. By then the other inmates were still laughing and his arm was swelling up, but he didn't tell him anything about the other inmates.

That night after the warden had gone to sleep, the other inmates kept punching Cuz because he'd yell, "Ow!" which they though was fun. He slept with one eye open all night long, worried about the guys.

The next morning those jerks were doing the same thing, like punching Cuz because he refused to punch them back. That's when one of them slugged him with his hard, steel plate. That killed Cuz. As the other prisoners laughed and applauded, the warden came by and saw Cuz lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from his head, both arms and both shoulders. The warden said, "Gosh, guys! That kid was new! Why did you have to kill, aw, never mind! You vultures!"

As the warden took Cuz's body, or what was left of it out of there, the Bishop of his Church came in with 2 members to pay his bail, but when they saw the men cover up his body, their faces dropped. That's when the Bishop and some of the elders laid hands on the limb, still bleeding body of Cuz. The inmates laughed when those guys began praying, then they mocked them, saying the same things they did, but they kept on laughing. They were all such horrible jerks in there. The jailers watched while shaking their heads as those men prayed for the corpse who laid on the floor. That was a mighty somber occasion.

All of a sudden, Cuz's head moved. That made the people laying hands on him began shouting. Some of them prayed in Tongues. A few seconds later, Cuz moved his arms. As the men continued praying even louder, some in English and some in the Spirit, Cuz finally said, "Ow! What's going on around here? Why did you bring me back? I was getting ready to play rugby! Then you messed it all up! Gad, guys!"

Everybody was laughing and patting Cuz on whatever body-part they cold reach. It proved the Lord wasn't done with the extremely talented child of the King down on Earth yet. Later Cuz wrote about the experience he'd had with seeing the bright Light and then having It tell him It wasn't done with him on Earth yet. Since he had already been ordained to preach, the Bishop made him the second bishop. The amazing thing about it all was that he had never even been through, as some crazy Christians call it, "semmitary school" because all the studying that's required to be a preacher could put some people in an early grave. With the Biblical knowledge he already had, he was promoted to the head pastor of a new Penticostal Church in town. That opened the doors for him to meet that special-person named Miss Write. Since she was also a writer, it meant she was literally, "Miss, "Right." A few years later they got married. The following year they blessed the entire planet with a junior Pastor who would some day change the world just like his daddy. So like the best-written stories of all-time will officially finish up with,

"THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER !!!!" The end.

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By, Cuz Roye.