The Stranger Who Had Predicting Powers

The Stranger Who Had Predicting Powers

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va. there lived a 12 year-old girl named Sue. She was named after her daddy's sister who was part Apache Indian. She got a lot of kidding from the other children in school saying she should have been born into the, "Sioux" Indians. Some other students said she had a boys name according to Johnny Cash's song. When they laughed, she would laugh to make them think it didn't bother her, but when she got in her moms car to go home, she would break down sobbing. Her parents would tell her it was because those other kids were jealous of her because they wanted to be part Indian, but that didn't make her feel any better about her heritage.

After a while she gave up on trying to tell her parents about those mean kids who were constantly calling her those hurtful names because they always said the same thing every time which wasn't helpful. Since she didn't have any real friends since she was new in town and hadn't met many kids her own age, she was crying as she walked home from school. That's when a stranger heard her and asked her what was wrong. when she told him, he said, "Ah, that's what people did to me when I was your age because my name is Jack. The kids always called me Jack-o-lantern, especially at Halloween time. It reached the point where I dreaded the whole month of October because of those blasted little brats. Yet they don't do that any more since I put a stop to it."

"What did you about those kids, punch their lights out? Rearrange their faces? Knock them into the next zip code? Give them a knuckle or club sand- wich? Rearrange their faces? Slap the fire out of their faces?" asked Sue who wanted to know.

"Na," said the stranger, "because I made one of these. It's a crystal ball. It lets me see into the future. Looks like you could use one now yourself."

"Oh, sir!" said Sue jumping up and down in much great excitement, "I'd give anything to have that! Yet I have no money! Can we make some kind of deal?"

"Now, I knew you'd want it because I saw it." said the man with a smile, "I'm getting old and don't have use for it any more, but since you're so sweet, I'll sell it to you. How about free? I can't go any lower!"

"Thank you, oh thank you!" yelled Sue, "I'd do any-thing to pay you back! Just tell me what you need!"

"Use it well, that's all I need you to do for me," said the man with a smile, "that would make me happy."

When Sue got home, she immediately took the ball into her room and looked into it. She saw herself punching a boy who kept teasing her and ending up getting suspended from school for fighting. As she kept looking into it, she saw her daddy yelling since he'd won the Virginia Lottery Mega-Millions prize. She also saw her mom's quartet becoming world-famous and touring the whole country, and later the whole world, singing.

When she got home, she tried to convince her folks to get into the things she'd seen. They said she had lost her mind, but when she kept insisting on it, she finally convinced them to do the things she said.

Several days later the stiff she told them about happened. They were ecstatic, but then they asked how she knew those things would happen. She told them she just had a hunch and it paid off big-time.

Later while walking home from school, she saw the mysterious man again. That time she ran to him yelling, "It happened! It happened! Everything you said came true! My family has never been so happy!"

"Yeah, I knew they," smiled the strange woman happily, "I saw you would be getting wealthy. Now, be sure it doesn't go to their heads. That causes huge problems. Remember, the Bible clearly states, that 'The love of money's the root of all eve.' "

"Thank's for the warning!" said Sue, "I'll do that!"

Yet when she got home, her parents had already bought a mink coat for her mom and a 50 foot yacht for her daddy. Plus they bought 40 shares of stocks and had hired a bookie to let them know who to bet money on in the major sporting events happening at the time. The following week their stocks went sky-high, making them all quite wealthy indeed. That's when Sue bought some mink coats for her mom and a Porsche 911 for her daddy. They invested the rest into more stocks so they could see them going up.

Then Mr. Murphy came into their lives, bringing his law with him. While her daddy was out taking her mom to show-off her mink coats and his lovely Porsha to some friends, his car's front wheel got stuck in some railroad tracks with a train coming towards them. As her daddy jumped out and grabbed his wife, he tore her beautiful mink coat right up the middle, totally ruining it. While she was screaming out of despair, the train crashed into the beautiful Porsche, smashing it into tiny pieces.

That's when Sue went to a place called The Dan River Pentecostal Holiness Church. Since God told her to hear pastor, Bishop David, they'd be coming to his Church and that they needed some major counseling. Since he was so strong in the Word, he knew all the right things to tell those distraught people. There was also a guy named Cuz who went there. It took both of them to minister the right words to those distraught people. Yet David prayed that God would just bless them in spite of their problems. The Lord works in mysterious ways sometimes or in ways we couldn't understand.

The following day while Sue was grieving over her parents loss, she noticed a bright Light was shining through her window. The Light floated to where she was. Then it turned into a really good-looking man. He said, "Close your mouth, Sue. A bug might fly into it. I'm Harold, your guardian angel. God's assigned me to take care of you because you're in a bit of a spot and He wants you to know He's testing your faith in Him to see if you'll remain faithful to Him when bad things come your way. Trust Him and He'll help you deal with all of yours, and He will just eliminate all of your parent's problems as well."

Wile the angel told her to have faith in the One Who could do miracles, she relaxed and felt a huge feeling of comfort. The Holly Spirit's her Comforter.

The next day she told her daddy to invest all of his money into stocks, yet he said she had gone mad, but she was so insistent he gave in and bought some shares. He did it to humor his insistent daughter.

That evening the stocks soared to their highest point in history, making him a millionaire. He put all of his earnings back into the stocks again and it tripled. That's the highest stocks had ever been.

As they kept putting more money into them, they continued getting higher until her daddy was the world's first trillionaire. That meant they could afford everything they had ever dreamed of, including donating a lot to The American Cancer Society, The Muscular Distrophy Asosiation, The Heart Society and The Head-Injury Foundation, all of which found cures for those epidemics. Sue later met Mr. Right through a writer's club which meant that he was really, "Mr. 'Write.' " He, "popped-it" and she said, "Yeah!" so they got married. Later on they had children who grew up really smart for their mom and mighty athletic for their daddy, so their kids all ended up the same way as their parents did, etc.. That went on for their family tree, even though many people said it, "wooden" work out that way for the good-people, so like the best-written children's stories of all-time will officially finish up with,

THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!!"

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The end. By, Cuz Roye.