her father’s house; how she told herself that this is what she had always wanted.
“I am doing it now,” she thinks, “I am doing what I always wanted to, and it is so much better than I ever thought it would be. I am free! I am alive!”
“Hope is with Jack G, the Faithful. That is just perfect,” Jack thinks as they negotiate the S bend. “Simply awesome.”
Their Father gave Hope her new name that day when he brought her on his renovated skateboard.
“I shall make all things new,” is what He had said. “Jack, don’t you think Hope is a beautiful name for a precious girl, who did not stop hoping when there was no hope left? Come get your skateboard, Hope! I know this is what you have wished for!”
Amoran follows with another team of skateboarders. There are many onlookers with cameras, and others that are cheering.
Down, down, down, with soaring spirits, at a speed that can only be loved by those who love skateboarding, and into Kloof Nek Road. The Waterfront is waiting.
A red tourist bus is parked alongside Kloof Nek Road. The road is lined with huge bales of hay. All the lights remain green for them.
“What it say?” a foreign tourist asks, pointing at the banner displayed where the road enters the Tamboerskloof. Jack and Hope pass underneath it, followed by the rest of the group.
The tour guide starts reading:
FREELY TO THE WATERFRONT,
FOR THE WORD OF TRUTH
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Author’s note
Is the story of Jack Gullible true?
In part, yes. I was inspired to write this story by an incident that happened in May 2011. My husband and I were driving down the real Kloof Nek road in Cape Town. (We do not live there and were only visiting for the week end to attend a family wedding.) From the corner of my eye, I became aware of a silent, ghost-like figure that was passing our little hired car at lightning speed. It was a young boy on a skateboard, negotiating the traffic and followed by an old brown Mercedes that had only one flicker in working condition. The driver was a teenage boy.
Jack Gullible was born. No matter how much I tried to forget about him, or tried to run from him, he would return and would not stop bothering me until I had his story written down. During the process of writing I used to give snippets of the writing to my English pupils to read. They never knew who the author was and I expected a disinterested, bored reaction. I was surprised by the amusement it caused.
Two of the girls repeatedly asked where they could buy this book, because they wanted to read the whole story. I was too embarrassed to tell them the truth and just stayed aloof whenever the subject was raised. After a year, I have nearly finished my work. Both girls have left the school where I teach at the beginning of that year and I thought that the matter was now forgotten. However, when the one girl returned to my school after another year, the first thing that she enquired about when she saw me again, was Jack’s story.
So this is for that girl and for the boy on the skateboard, although by now they must have outgrown the story.
Are the prophecies true?
Yes. All of the prophecies in this story were written down in the time span as indicated by Amahl, and were fulfilled in history as indicated. So, if you have a need for a “Water Father”, the good news is that He is real. He can free you from your concrete mound and you can also “jump” to him by taking a leap of faith. He is waiting for you to invite Him to have a personal relationship with Him and be freed from the bad consequences of evil things that happened to you, of wrong decisions, of hatred, of fear, of disappointments, and of bitterness. Don’t allow anything in your life to under-estimate his power! No one has power over life and death, but He has.
For more information on the web:
https://www.e-sword.net/
https://www.reasons.org/articles/articles/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for-the-reliability-of-the-bible
https://100prophecies.org/
https://ebookbrowse.com/more-than-a-carpenter-pdf-d46626557
https://www.amazingmuslims.com/
https://www.everystudent.com/africa/features/bible.html
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