Win a $15 GC: Bringing Up Mother by Beverley Johnson

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Beverley learns about God in Kindergarten and invites Him to come to Jamaica and give her her own Bible story. She goes home each day and waits at her gate for Him to show up. Will He show up, and will she be ready for her story if and when He does?

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I could not shake the feelings of guilt that perhaps I could have played an important role in either preventing someone from dying or preparing them for some tragic news. I convinced myself that this gift was the work of the devil. I most certainly didn’t want to see or know things before they happened. Perhaps I did not want to see the entire picture. It was easier to believe the devil was out to get me than to believe God was calling me to deliver me. If God was indeed calling me, I was neither ready, nor willing to give my life over to Him. And what was I expected to do with the feeling that I had been somewhere when I knew for a fact that I had never been there before? What purpose could that serve? Nothing was clear. My life was like a giant jigsaw puzzle that I could not put together, because there were missing pieces.

But there was one clue to all that was happening to me; it simply didn’t register in my brain at the time. After each burning event, while I waited on the steps for my body to cool down and for my strength to return, I’d get the feeling I used to have when I returned from Sunday school and church. I could not adequately describe what the feeling was or what it meant, but I would have it all day on Sundays after I changed out of my church clothes back into my play clothes. It was a warm glow that felt like a cool, gentle breeze. In fact, it felt so much like this that I started calling it Sweet Breeze. It didn’t make much sense to me, so I never bothered to explore the feeling. I believed God would eventually rescue me, and I would return to a normal life, pursue my dreams as planned, and no one would ever know anything supernatural had ever happened to me.

About the Author:

Beverley was born and raised in the rural parish of Clarendon, Jamaica, where she attended the Content United Brethren Church and its Basic (Kindergarten) school, better known as Sister Betty's school. Growing up, she attended York Town Primary and Denbigh Junior Secondary school, now Denbigh High School. She migrated to Toronto, Canada, as a young adult. A graduate of the University of Toronto and OISE, she is an Elementary teacher by profession, and also a Sunday school teacher. She enjoys reading, writing, travelling and working with children.

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