UFO: The Encounter Page #5

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to lend a helping hand to the helpless

and there's love

Nick, there's still love.

How could we forget love?

Nick, there's one thing for sure

There's no love in hell

There's no beauty, no hope

there's just torment

the kind of torment that comes from within

But surely no one would choose that

if they really believe you existed

Not so

Nobody goes into hell blind-folded

In one way or another I've reveiled myself to everyone

But if they could just see you

Not even that would be enough

Look at satan

He stood before me in the very throne room of God

but he thought the beauty and the power bestowed was

somehow earned

Gave himself over to pride

scratch any sin and just below the surface you'll find pride

People steal because they think they deserved what

other people worked hard for the

they hop from bed to bed because they feel entitled

to just satisfy themselves, no matter who it hurts,

no matter what pain that it costs

Here we go

Can I get you anything else?

No, all great, thanks.

Enjoy your meals.

It's the best burger I've ever tasted

guess I should take my coupons back

I have to give you credit

This is the best salad I've ever tasted

I'll give you a bite of my salad

if you let me have a bite of your burger

This is the first salad I've ever wanted to taste

Here we go

sirloin tips, smothered in gravy on a bed of mashed potatoes

with a green salad on the side

and Thousand Island dressing

Thank you

Aren't you going to eat?

No, my food is to serve my Father

It tastes just like my mom's

Kayla, would you like to join us

or do you want me to serve you over there

I promise not to mention that LA thing again

unless you want to talk about it

Okay

Wow, this is great.

Is it?

It's not too hard or mild

It's

Perfect?

Ya

Thanks, I get that a lot

On second thought, I'm not hungry

Nick, I guarantee you this is the best deal you'll ever get

And it's absolutely free

You don't have to do anything but accept it

Thanks but no thanks

I'm liable to end up brain-washed like the rest of these people

You wasted your time

No, it's not wasted

The meal he rejected will become food for others

Well, if he doesn't want it, can I have it?

Absolutely.

Kayla, I am willing to give you many good things

all you have to do is ask

I have asked

Have I answered?

Do you have any idea how we lived?

One week we'd be at my grandmother's

and then the next we'd be in the shelter

and the week after, we'd be in child services

or foster home

And then my mom would get us back

Promising us that it'd be different this time

But it never was

She's a junky

Junkies never change

Your mother loves you.

Yeah, when she was drunk and crying

but how she could've been this or that

she could have been?

What about me?

What chance did I ever have what the mother like her?

Do you think she cared if I brushed my teeth

or if I combed my hair

or if I was hungry

or even if I went to school?

She'd never even let me leave her side

when I was little, and cute

She gets twice the handouts

When I got just as dirty as her

people looked away

The way you did.

I've never turned away

So you were watching when I have to flag down a police officer

after my mom oded

Or how about the time the guy robbed us and he cut me instead

I'm glad you were watching

Hope you put on a pretty good show for you

I used to pray when I was little

Pastor Jim down at the mission taught me how

He's a good man.

Yeah

At least he cared.

What did you do for us?

I took all of these hard things Kayla

and I used them to turn you into the wonderful young lady that you are

so strong, and enduring, such a wonderful role model

for your little sister

But right now she's with him

Him?

My stepfather, Jake.

The funny thing is, at first I thought

he was answer to my prayer

He had a house, and a job, and it finally looked like

we're gonna have a normal home life

But when he got to drinking

my mother and him got to fighting

It was worse than the streets

and then she locked him out in the bedroom

and he looked for a new place to sleep

and not just to sleep

Where were you then?

I was shouting into his mind and consciousness

to stop, stop.

I was there in the bathroom

Oh God, please.

And I heard you

Kayla, your prayer before you pulled that trigger

It wasn't for death

It was to go to a better place

Kayla, if you had died that night

you wouldn't have gone to a better place

So the night before, I caused your stepfather to stumble that made him

reconsider the prospects of keeping

the loaded gun in his pocket

so he removed the clamp and unknowingly saved your life

It's not the first time I saved your life

nor will it be the last either

Kayla, what do you want?

I just want to stop hurting

I can't promise you that all your problems

will disappear overnight

you have a hard road ahead of you

But I can tell you that you'll have a peace and have purpose

that will not only survive but it will thrive and grow

If you trust me.

Would you follow me?

Yes

Will you forgive all those people who hurt you?

even as I forgive you?

Yes

Even Jake?

How can you ask me to do that?

You saw what he did to me

Yeah

But Kayla, look what he's done to me

I paid heavy price for your stepfather's sins

It's the same price I paid for your sins

Now Kayla, I want you to go back to Los Angeles

and I want you to tell the police what your stepfather did

I want him to go to jail

He needs to understand that there's a price

that has to be paid for sin, even in this fallen world

But Kayla I don't want him to go to hell

I want him to come to me, so I can forgive him

so I can give him a new life

And you know there's another reason

that I want you to forgive him

If you don't, all the anger and resentment will just

poison every relationship you have

even ours.

If you want love, you have to abandon hate

Don't let anger steal your joy

I forgive him

And I forgive you

You had to be ashamed of yourself

Taking advantage of an emotionally destruct little girl

Nick, why are you fighting me?

What have I done to make you hate me?

Hate you?

You think I've given you enough thought to hate you?

I hate federal regulators

I hate taxes

I hate sitting in couch

You don't warn hate

You warn exactly what I've given you all this time

Indifference

I don't want you

I don't need you

I'm not like these losers

You don't need anything else in your life, Nick?

I'm living in the American dream

Eleven years in the NFL?

Nine PRO BOWLS?

Two Super Bowl rings?

A sack record that no one's come close to touching yet

A restaurant chain that'll all take public in a couple of years

for hundreds of millions of dollars

I've got everything I want

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world

and lose his soul

It's not the love of money

that keeps him away from me, Melissa.

Thank you

It's pride

Here we go with pride again

Give pride a break

You show me someone without pride, and I'll show you a bum

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