A/N: Howdy!!!!! I miss my reviews, haha, ok I only gave it less than 24 hours, so its understandable, but anyways, here's the 5th chapter of my fic. I'm planning on making this thing very long like 20-40 chapters long in the end, but I don't know if i'll reach that goal, but with God's help, i'm sure I will. I also have a website now, if you are a signed in reviewer, I will email it to you, its a fanfic site. Like a message board thingy. So review if you wanna join in on the fun there. I may even share my christian message board too if i'm real nice, haha, just ask, and i'll give you both addy's!!!! Well, my only request here is R&R!!!!!!!! I love hearing opinions, etc.... thanks!!!!! God bless you all, -Tinkerbell
Left behind kids series, thousand year reign, chapter 5, A family reunion
Lionel woke up the next morning to a smell he hasn't smelled in a while. Bacon, and eggs. So he got out of bed, and saw his uncle cooking breakfast. "Morning Lionel," he said. "Morning," Lionel mumbled. He was not a morning person at all. I wonder where the bacon and eggs came from, Lionel wondered. "Look what God gave us today, He is supplying foods we all enjoyed on regular earth since we are His followers, not sure how He did it, but I woke up, and here was all this stuff," his uncle explained. "Cool, so when are we meeting the family?" Lionel asked. "Oh, they'll be here soon, they are coming for breakfast, you mind setting up the table?" His uncle asked. "Sure will," Lionel replied.
Lionel was deep in His thoughts right now. It seems so unreal, a perfect world, seeing all my family, uncle Andre not being a drug addict/drinking whiskey, God supplying food from nowhere, no bad stuff happening at all, no more anti Christ, no more worries, no more fear, it just can't be that real, yet it is, it's wonderful, yet weird. He was interrupted of his thoughts by a knock on the door. "Well hello everybody, come on in, breakfast is almost ready," Andre welcomed them in. "Thanks Andre, how are you guys this morning?" Lucinda Washington asked. "Good, and tired, mom," Lionel replied, everybody laughed. "Well, you never were a morning person, Lionel," she reminded him. And they all sat down together, said a blessing over the meal, and ate breakfast together as a family.
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Meanwhile, Vicki was washing dishes at her house, tidying up the place some, while Judd took the kids to the playground. She thought about what all was going on now, her lifestyle before, and herself now. And about what Mark had told her and Judd yesterday. She knew her family was proud of her, but she hardly ever seen them since the thousand year reign started. She was gonna see them today, because she promised Jeanni that she'd take the kids over. Little did her family know that she was pregnant, but they were gonna find out today. She was more than ecstatic to tell them. She only hoped they would be as thrilled. She knew Jeanni would be happy with it, Jeanni has always loved her kids, and loves being called aunt Jeanni. So Vicki knew there would be no problems in that relationship. Vicki only wondered how her parents would react, then she remembered, I'm married, God sent an angel to deliver the news, if God was okay with it, then so would her parents, she decided.
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"Daddy!!!" Anne called as her and Pablo fell as they played tag. "Are you okay?" Judd asked running to her already knowing the answer when he got there. "Yes, we are, the fall just almost frightened me, daddy, can you explain why before Jesus came here we got hurt, but now we don't?" Anne asked. "Well, Anne, God made this a perfect, pain-free world," he replied. "So there's no pain?" she asked. "Yeah, pretty much," he replied watching the other kids play, and Anne running back out again.
Chloe came out with Kenny just now. "Congratulations," she called. "Thanks," Judd said as her and Kenny embraced him. After they let go Kenny went to play with the kids. "Guess what, Judd?" Chloe said. "What?" he asked. "There are more kids being adopted everyday, Jesus set up an orphanage not too far from here in case you wanted to adopt more kids," Chloe informed him. "Really? I have to talk to Vicki about it," Judd replied. "Yeah, Buck is over there now adopting two kids," Chloe said. "Wow, so Kenny will have siblings?" he asked. "Yep," she replied. "How cool," Judd replied, and Chloe and Judd kept talking while the kids continued playing.
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Meanwhile, Conrad and Shelly were just walking around again. They made an attempt twice a day to walk around. "So, Shelly, when do you want to get married? We have lots to talk about," Conrad said. "Yeah, I know, so where do we start?" Shelly asked. "I don't know, why don't we ask Chloe and Buck later," Conrad replied. "Yeah, or Vicki and Judd, or have both families help us out," Shelly replied. "Sounds cool, then we'll get married after talking to everybody," Conrad explained and they smiled at each other. "I love you, Shelly," Conrad said. "I love you too," Shelly replied and they shared a brief kiss. "These times are so exciting, with Jesus reigning, no worries of the GC and all breaking everything up, its so great," Shelly said. "Yeah, I know, we can freely get married, walk around in broad daylight, and do things we love again, it's great," Conrad replied, and the two headed back to the houses.
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"So, mom, where are y'all staying?" Lionel asked. "Oh just a ways from here, we can take you and your uncle there tomorrow if you'd like. Bruce lives near us," his mother replied. "Really? Cool, I'd love to see Bruce again," Lionel replied. "Yeah, I'd like to meet him myself," his uncle exclaimed, and they made plans for the next day to be a family day again. Lionel was so thrilled to be reunited with his parents once again. It felt good to have the love of family all around him. He recalled a tv show his sister Clariece use to watch, called 7th heaven, and this moment with his family reminded him of that show. He didn't understand, but he knew it had to be the love of family that gave him that feeling. It was almost 4:00pm and they were all reading their bible together. Mr. Washington thought it would be a great idea to start a once a week bible study during the thousand year reign, though everything in there had already been prophecied. Lionel enjoyed today with the bible study, and hanging out with his family. He realized just now how much he really missed his family through the tribulation, he was so glad and grateful to spend time with them again, and even though he had no grasp on how long forever would be, he knew he would be with his family, forever. After their bible study, they sang a few worship chourses together, one song was called 'Forever' and it went something like this.
"Forever God is faithful, forever God is strong, Forever God is with us, Forever…"
And Lionel couldn't help but think about God being forever faithful through the tribulation, and how strong God was then, and how He is now. Then it ran into the song, "I could sing of your love forever," And during that song, Lionel, and the whole family just worshipped as they sang songs of joy, love, and God's glory. After they finished, each of them prayed aloud taking turns, thanking God for all He had done for them, and bringing them back together. When it was nearing 10:00, Lionel felt like today went by so fast, he wasn't ready to go to bed, but since everyone else was getting ready to, he decided he might as well, after al tomorrow would be a big day for him, visiting where his family lived, visiting Bruce and his family, etc.. He could only imagine what God's plans were for him the next day.
A/N: well, how was that chapter? Hope you all liked it. Please R&R!!!!!!!! Thanks, love ya all like brothers and sistas in Christ, byeas!!!!! -Tinkerbell!!!!!!