My Utopia:

Chapter 14: God will keep us safe

I wake up the next morning. I am not shocked to see that the boys are not up yet. I go and take a shower. I bring my clothes into the bathroom with me. I get in and take a 15 minutes shower. When I get out I put my clothes on. I comb out my beard. I walk out and wake the guys up. I then go next door and knock on the door. One of the girls opens the door. I walk in. I find my daughter in bed with another of the girls. I don't think anything of it because they have known each other since they were 10 and they are very close. I tell them that when they are ready to come next door. I walk back to my room and sit on the bed. When the girls walk in everyone sits on the ground in front of me. Jasmine sits on Maria's lap. I say, "Let's bow our heads and pray." Everyone bows their heads. "Thank you God for another day of being alive. Speak through us today as we spread your word. Please keep us all safe while we are doing your work. Amen." Everyone says Amen. We go to breakfast. When everyone sits down we pray to say thanks for our food. I say, "Today the scripture we will be following, teaching, and living by will be Mark 7:1 through Mark 7:5. The scripture is
'Judging Others
7 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.' So today no matter what we see do not judge others. Because it is not our place to judge." Everyone nods. We walk around the ship. We hand out bibles and pamphlets. The pamphlets we hand out are about why you should follow God no matter what you have heared. We do this until lunch time. I go and get pizza. We spend an hour eating and then we go back to handing the stuff out. We speak to different people about God. I even tell some people my story. At 2 we go back to our rooms. Jasmine and Maria left us a while back. I have one of the girls unlock the door so I can store some of our stuff in the room. When I walk in I find Jasmine on top of my daughter humping her. I say, "Oh heck no. Get off of my daughter." They cover up. I say, "I said get off of my daughter." She does but she makes sure both of them are covered up. My sweet innocent Maria or at least that what I thought she was says, "Daddy we were going to tell you tonight after dinner. Please don't judge."

"I'm not judging but it doesn't mean that I have to be happy about it. Get dressed and go do some work." I walk out shaking my head. I walk to my room and pray asking God to take away my anger. An hour later we have to get to the life boats. Everyone that is in my group is with me other than Maria and Jasmine. I say a fast prayer before grabbing a bible and passing one to everyone. I take one for Jasmine and Maria. I grab the emergency bags. I hand the boys theirs and some of the girls theirs. I grab mine. We run to the boats. Jasmine and Maria are waiting there for us. I hug them both and hand them their bibles. I say, "I don't care if you're a lesbian. You are my baby girl and I'm happy that it is Jasmine that you love. I got mad because I wanted you to wait for marriage. I have preached for years not to judge people like you. It's not our place." My daughter gives me a hug. There is only room for to people on one of the boats that we are suppose to get on. I am about to tell Jasmine and Maria to get on but everyone agrees that it should be Maria and I. They all know we would worry about each other if we aren't on the same one. We get on. A family gets on after us. The works lower us and cut us lose. When the ship looks tiny Maria and I notice that there are no other life boats around us. I see that she is about to cry. I hold her and we pray. I know that we are both praying that the others are safe. When we get done a guy ask if he we can pray. I say, "Of course we can. Anyone you wants to pray with us can." Everyone bows their heads other then 4 people. I say, "Please God keep us safe. Let your love shine down on all of us. I know our lives are in your hands know. Please just watch over us. Amen." Everyone says Amen. We float until it is late. The rest of them falls asleep. When I see land I yell land ho. Everyone wakes up. We decide to check and see who all have their emergency bags. Everyone but two have them. The next thing for us was to see if they float or if we needed to get the boat all the way in. One of the guys says, "I have two emergency bags. One is my personal one and I know it floats and won't get damaged by the water. So we can use my emergency bag from the ship." We all nod. He drops it and it floats. It doesn't get water in it either. Most of us agree to swim. One woman, one guy, and a boy say that they don't know how to swim. A boy who belong to the gay couple says, "My cousin Marie and I are life guards." Marie raises her hand so we can know who she is. I say, "My daughter is also a lifeguard. So my daughter will take the woman, the boy will take the man, and Marie can take the little boy." Marie says, "Ok but my wife will need someone to help her take my daughter to shore." I say, "I will take her to shore." They nod. Everyone who can swim and didn't have someone to carry jumped out. They left their bags though. Then I got in and Marie handed me her daughter. Her wife gets in and she hands her their son. We are swimming. The lifeguards get in and help the people they are getting to shore out. The guy with two bags then pulls the boat to land. We all lay down when we reach the shore. Before I lay down I hand Marie her daughter. We sleep there for the night.