Friday, June 4, 2010

Ben's Bedtime story

Once upon a time, there lived this man. he was a normal man, in a normal time with a normal family and a normal home and a normal farm and a normal dog with the normal cat. The man would get up at the normal time and go eat his normal food and go out and work. And that's where the normal ended. This man was different, he would go out and work until the job was done. See, that wasn't normal, because it was what was needed, not what was the norm. He was single, see his beautiful wife and his beloved daughter had died off in the last plague. It was a blessing in disguise for his land was ruled by an evil oppressor who had no respect for life or families. It was an evil time. The normal man, Bob, had one comfort, his neighbors, the sluckian family. They also had a daughter, Susie, who had been his daughter's play mate.
One day the evil bands of lawless oppressor (the pepians) were roaming the land and they decided to take not only the crops of the normal families but they decided to take the beautiful daughter of the normal man's neighbor. The evil band of five rode in and stole the daughter and killed the entire sluckian family when they resisted.
When Bob saw the sluckian farm burning, he knew what had happened. He started running to cut the invaders off, armed only with his pitchfork. He ran as hard as he could and he made it to the intersection before the raiders did. he took off his shirt, revealing his muscled torso holding the shirt in one hand, the pitchfork in the other. He hid in the ditch and waited for them.. as the lead one approached, his horse running full speed, he flapped his shirt, spooking the horse... and throwing the rider to the ground. He jumped out and thrust the pitchfork into the second rider's neck causing instant painful death. He then broke the handle off creating a spike, that he slammed into the fallen riders body, pinning him like a beetle. he then pulled out the fallen rider's sword and slashed the belly of the third horse and then hacking his riders head off with the back stroke as the rider fell. the fourth horse spooked at the sight of blood and backed into the fifth rider causing susie to get knocked to the ground. The fourth rider tried to clear his sword but Bob rammed the sword into his gut, then swung up using the sword as an axis to jump onto the last living evil pepian. They both fell to the ground and they wrestled around until at last Bob choked the last one to death. Susie ran up to the blood covered Bob and held on to dear life crying incoherently. Give the poor girl a break, her whole family was wiped out.

The next day he called a meeting together of his people. They debated for a while then at last they said.. we must go and fight the pepians, we must let them know our women are not their playthings!
Bob and the men marched out to battle with the evil pepians.
They met them in the valley of the dirty snow. There Bob's people were afraid.. there were 500 pepians to their 25 farmers! and Bob had the only swords. Bob, the normal man.. was in a position. Would he do the normal thing.. and flee with his fellow normal people? or would he get the job done?

The normal people did what normal people do when faced with extraordinary situations. They fled! Well, one left.. Bob. Bob stood there sword in hand. The pepians stood there and laughed at the one man with a sword. Then they charged. When at last the dust settled and the blood stopped flowing one man stood. But he did not stand alone.. he had God standing with him. God wants the normal man to do extraordinary things so that God can do supernatural things through him. Bob? he had the sword stuck to his hand.. but he still stood.
11 Sam 23:10