A Story and A Peace

Jetta was transported to town, and lodged at the doctors dwelling until she had recovered, which was about three days. When she was well again, James arrived to take her to the orphanage. This may sound very unusual for a girl of 16 to be entering an orphanage but most everyone in town had many children or were too selfish to share with an orphan. As a result, she went the Cloy Orphanage to serve as a helper to the elderly minister and his aged wife. A kind Negro girl a lot older than Jetta greeted her at the door.” Hello, what brings you here at an hour like this.” For you must know it was almost dark. “Are you the gale that was supposed to come and help me and the Mr. and Mrs.?” she inquired.

“Yes,” replied Jetta. Lacy, which was the maid’s name, showed Jetta the entire orphanage. Jetta was very impressed with this orphanage everything was incredibly tidy. Everything was in its place. Lacy gave Jetta a thin slice of bread and a warm mug of milk. This orphanage didn’t seem have much money to work with, and Jetta could already see it by the way they fed her. As Jetta crawled into the small bed she had to share with Lacey, she asked in a broken almost angry tone, “Lacey? Why did God allow this to happen? Why did those Indians kill my ma and pa? Why did they kidnap Peter and Katie? If I could get my hands on them, I would kill every one of them, every one. They had no right to kill my family, no right!”

     “Jetta, dear, God allows things to happen to test our faith in Him. God would have not killed those Indians he would have forgiven them, and He would have treated those Indians with the greatest respect and dignity. So don’t upset yourself, forgive them.”

    “But you don’t know what I’m feeling. What’s the point in living?” moaned Jetta”, I cannot bear to go to the funeral tomorrow. I don’t want to go.”

   “Jetta may I tell you a story?”

   “Yes.”

   “A girl and her family were slaves to a kind old gentleman. He treated them as if they were part of his family. When he died, in his will he stated that he wanted his slaves to be free to do whatever they wanted to do. Therefore, with the small amount of money the girl’s father had saved they set out to look for a house in the city. However, rent prices were too high for them to pay. They gave  up finding a nice house. They made their way toward the slums, the father spotted an advertisement nailed to a post. It said  “CHEAP LAND IN NEBRASKA! GO AND GET IT!” “They set out as soon as they could. The family’s trip was going smoothly for a few months but then….” Lacey’s voice trailed off. She started to weep quietly.

    “What’s the matter? Why are you crying?”Questioned Jetta.

“Then one morning the little girl woke up and found that no one was in the camp everything was upturned arrows were everywhere.”

   “How sad. Did the girl ever find out what happened to her family?”

 “No.” Lacy replied, “Well, Jetta, that is my story.”

“That happened to you to?” Asked Jetta.

“Mm hmm”

“Aren’t you upset? You don’t seem to be a bit angry!”

“I used to be angry, but then Miss Barbra showed me how to be saved. I have peace now since I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.”

“I never understand why people can say they have peace when something terrible like this happens. Even worse things have happened to people and they still say they have a peace. I just don’t get it at all.”

  Lacey asked God for guidance as she told Jetta, “Well, Jetta, long long ago Jesus, God’s son came to earth to die on the cross so that we could go to heaven with him when we die. But you cannot go to heaven by doing good works. You must believe in what Jesus did on the cross,  and ask him to forgive you of your sin. If you do that with a sincere heart and a willingness to be saved;  God will save you and you can experience the peace that you have seen everybody else have. Would you like to be saved Jetta?”

   A few minutes later Jetta gloriously was saved! She no longer felt angry, and she actually wanted to go back to the Indian village and show them how to be saved. However, she had no idea where they lived. Jetta sunk into a deep sleep a few minutes later.