The Harper Family: Faithfully Yours (Wattpad Version)

God works in mysterious ways

Oliver

I sat in a pew and worked on a sermon for Sunday services. I haven't used my office since the night of Melody's attack. The door had remained closed and locked.

"A good choice to write your sermon," a voice said.

I stopped writing and turned my head to see Uncle Nixon sitting next to me. "I swear to God. I'm losing my mind."

"You shouldn't swear. It's sacrilegious." Nixon looked at me and smiled.

"You're not real." I shook my head.

"Sure, I am." Nixon shrugged.

"If you're real, why are you here?"

"You need guidance because you lost your way."

"I haven't lost my way." I rolled my eyes.

"Sure, you have. If you didn't, you wouldn't question your faith."

I looked at Nixon as he smirked at me. "Shouldn't you be enjoying the afterlife instead of harassing me?"

"I would if you would do your job as a minister. I didn't train you to question your faith. I gave you the tools to help other people."

"Didn't you question your faith?"

"No." Nixon shook his head. "I questioned my ability as a father. Significant difference."

"A monster brutalized a young woman in the chapel. God should have protected her. How can I not question my faith?"

"You're missing the point, Oliver. Let me spell it out for you. Yes, someone hurt another person. But it happened here where you saved a young woman from meeting her untimely death and parents grieving their child. If it happened anywhere else, the person would have succeeded. Evil does not pick and choose when or where it strikes. It's your job to show people why God exists."

"Not everyone believes God is real."

"Those people want proof. They want to see God in human form. They forget one vital detail."

"What's that?"

"God doesn't need to prove anything to anyone. You either believe, or you don't. It's the same with the wind. You can't see it, but you can feel it. If God didn't exist, we wouldn't be here." Nixon shrugged.

I looked at Nixon. Even in death, he was making valid points. I pondered what Nixon said until a light bulb went off.

"If God didn't exist, you wouldn't be here."

Nixon's lips curved slightly.

"You were the one whispering in my ear that night."

Nixon nodded in confirmation.

"You didn't come to me to reaffirm my faith. You were warning me." I stared at Nixon in concern.

"Oliver, I came to you because you would help the girl. I couldn't tell you what was coming, or it altered people's paths. He sent me to guide you."

Before I could ask more questions, Nixon vanished.

"Oliver?" A voice asked.

I turned my head to my dad, looking at me in confusion. "Yeah?"

"Who were you talking to?"

I turned to face the front. "Myself."

My dad walked toward where I was sitting and joined me. "Are you okay?"

"That's the twenty-five thousand dollar question. I don't know." I shook my head.

"Are you still upset about what happened to that young girl?"