"Slim's Wild Ride"

“Slim’s Wild Ride”

 

 

There was a really bad storm brewing, and Sam didn’t like storms very much, the wind began to blow and black clouds rolled across the evening sky.  Vivid lightning streaked from the black clouds to the ground, popping and cracking with a clash of loud thunder ever now and then. 

Then all of a sudden the power went out and for a few moments Sam and his mom and dad were in the dark.  So Sam’s mom quickly grabbed a lantern and some flashlights, then she turned on the lantern and there was a little light in the dark room. 

Sam felt a tad bit better, but he was beginning to tremble a little.  So his dad came over and put his arm around Sam’s shoulders, “Hey Sam, we’re going to be ok, we have light, and the weather radio and if it gets too bad we’ll go to the basement.  You know this storm reminds me of a story my dad told me, when I was about your age. 

There was this man who was real thin and everyone called him “Slim,” Slim had a dog that had real short legs and was skinny too, Slim called his dog “Shorty.”  Slim and shorty were always together.

One late afternoon, Slim and Shorty had just finished their supper, and they laid down on the sofa to watch the evening news.  The news person was telling about a person who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens from outer-space.  Well, Slim and Shorty drifted off to sleep but a little later on that night, Slim and Shorty were awakened when the house began to shake and it sounded like a freight train coming.

Slim grabbed Shorty and ran out of the house and sure enough there was a BIG tornado coming through the back woods, Slim ran fast as his skinny old legs would go, then he saw a HUGE old hollow log lying on its side, so Slim and Shorty ran and squeezed  into the dark, hollowed out log.

Slim looked behind him, and noticed that they were not alone.  All He could see was two, BIG, bright eyes glaring at them from the other end of the log.  Then suddenly, the log started to shake and roll and it became airborne.  Slim knew that that ole tornado had gotten hold of their log, he looked to the back of the log and those two BIG, bright eyes were still staring at him and Shorty. 

Then there was a bright streak of lightning that flashed through the twisted cloud and Slim swore they were in that log with one of them outer-space aliens, but there was nothing they could do, except all go along for the WILD RIDE.

Then all of a sudden their log hit something and it began to roll on the ground for a few minutes, then it stopped, and when it stopped, Slim and Shorty QUICKLY crawled out of the BIG, hollowed out log, and into the bright sunshine.  Slim ran to the other end of the log, and bent down to look in, but there was nothing there.

Old Slim scratched his bald head, looked around and noticed that he and Shorty were just a few miles from home. So they started walking, and when they got to their house everything looked fine.

They walked upon the rickety, old porch and into the house.  They were both pretty tuckered out from their WILD RIDE, so they laid down on their sofa and drifted off to sleep, safe and sound.”

“Dad is that REALLY a true story?” Sam asked, “Well, nobody knows for sure, Slim swore up and down that he and Shorty took a WILD RIDE in a BIG, hollowed out log with a space alien, what you think?”  His Dad asked.  Then he said to Sam, “Hey, Sam look the storms over and the lights are back on.  And it’s time for bed, but this story reminds me what the Bible says about the TRUTH. 

In Psalm 15:2 it says that, “Only those who are innocent and who do what is right. Such people speak the truth from their hearts.”  Those are the ones who will be able to live on God’s holy mountain.  So Sam practice telling the TRUTH.