SNEAK PEEK – SATURDAY AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS(2)

SNEAK PEEK – SATURDAY AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Howdy Friends! In this scene, Saturday, Kessy, Danielle and Fluffernutter, are pondering a giant question. About asking God things of great importance. They pondered and thought. And thought and pondered.

Saturday started thinking. And thinking. And this is how that thinking went.

EXCERPT –

Kessy had not been paying very close attention, and she said, “What?”

“I was thinking, how to ask God a question.” Saturday told Kessy.

Fluffernutter, who sometimes knew things that helped said, “By asking Him.”

Now Saturday knew Fluffernutter meant to be helpful, and she very often is, but somehow, ‘Just ask Him,’ didn’t seem much help. And he told Fluffernutter that, “The problem is how to ask Him.”

“It would seem to me,” Danielle offered, “that perhaps, maybe, you start with His name. Then ask your question.”

“That sounds reasonable,” Kessy said. “And easy enough.”

Saturday was about to ask, where, how, when – When Fluffernutter said, “Didn’t we learn from Noah in the Ark that God is always near, and hears everything? So it could be … ”

“It could be that all you need to do is ask Him right here in this very sunspot,” Danielle interrupted.

Saturday walked a big circle, because that’s what happens just before you ask a very important question. And everybody knows that walking, and thinking of questions go together. Now that Saturday knew how to ask, he wanted his question to be just the right question. So he said it, “Now that I know how to ask, how do I make just the right question?”

Everybody became very quiet, something that sometimes happens when everybody is thinking about the same thing at the same time. It was so quiet that a woodpecker drumming far away sounded very loud indeed. The drumming must have helped, because all at once everybody said together, “God hears all our thoughts, even before we say them!”

So Saturday decided right then to say out loud, “Dear God, why is it important to be good?” Then he thought about it a little and added, “Why is it important to be honest when we say things?” And he thought some more and said, “Why is it important not to want things we don’t have that our friends have?” That question made Saturday remember the times he would snitch apples away from Kessy. Thinking and, asking as he was, it seemed as if he maybe shouldn’t do that again. But he did love to crunch apples. There were more importances to ask, Saturday was sure, but try as he might he could not make the questions speak up.