Telling Traces
Posted by Maggie
on Sunday, October 11, 2009
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Jack and Dan were brothers and had founded a small church in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack was the head pastor and Dan was associate pastor. The year after the church came into being, both brothers were married and things were going very well for both families.
To celebrate the first anniversary of their church, the brothers decided to have a BBQ cook-out for all the members of the congregation. It was late in the evening before everything had been cleaned up so Dan and his wife, Betty asked Jack and his wife, Ruth to just spend the night with them instead of getting on the road after midnight. They agreed to do so.
Betty became pregnant first and she had a son which was named Jackie after his Uncle Jack. In the next couple of years Ruth had twin girls named Jane and Joyce. Dan and Betty had two daughters. The older was named Sara and the younger was named Laura.
What was once a small church grew so much in the next ten years that it became one of the largest Baptist churches in Atlanta and now the church had several thousand members as well as a huge new church building.
Jack was a strict preacher in the pulpit and often spoke of the morals and value in having a happy Christian home for the families in the church.
When Jackie became 30, he was invited to be an associate pastor and help preach in the church along with his father and uncle. Dan had a stroke and he stepped down from preaching.
All was going well until one spring morning when Jackie was involved in a horrible auto accident. The hospital asked family members if they would donate some much needed blood because there was not enough of Jackie`s blood type in stock.
The doctors were surprised that neither Dan or Betty had the right blood type and they tested Jack and Ruth`s blood.
Jack had the correct blood type and after deeper study on the DNA of Jackie it was discovered that his Uncle Jack was really his father. The blood was used and Jackie was soon on the mend.
It seems so many years ago after the BBQ when Jack and Ruth had spent the night at the home of Dan and Betty there had been a bit of wine served and Jack and Betty had both woke up and went to the front porch for a bit of fresh air. One thing led to another and they went into the nearby barn where Jackie was conceived. It never happened again and was never spoken about.
The church split after hearing about what had happened so long ago and Jackie was heart broken to learn the results of the DNA but understood that it never lied. He never preached again and moved away from Atlanta.
Such things often reveal their selves in the worst possible ways. Always better to tell the truth. Loved how you used the prompt as a DNA Strand :) I almost did that myself lol. Great story.
This sound like a true story Maggie. How interesting, if Christian can't forgive for past misdeeds, there seem to be no hope for today. A good story indeed!