Chapter 20 - Page 288 - Shanha's Faith

   "Papa, Mama," Shanha said, "don't forget about me."

   Jim and Rhasha knelt down beside Shanha and hugged her. "Sweetheart," Rhasha replied, "we will never forget about you."

   Jim heard a familiar sound and looked toward heaven. A few seconds later, Rhasha and Shanha heard it as well, and they looked upward too. The soft white clouds scattered across the sky began to pull toward the east, leaving the sky cloudless above them.

   They could hear the humming sound getting louder until it pulsated with power. After a few seconds, it faded and ceased. Jim, Rhasha, and Shanha sensed they were the only people in Dallas who could see what the clouds were doing. Life went on as usual for everyone else. A heavy, dark cloud had formed in the east. The wind began to blow. Suddenly dark clouds rolled in above them like foam on a raging river. Lightning cracked across the sky. Thunder roared like an earthquake. The clouds rolled back toward the east.

   Four angels appeared above them, off toward the east. The four angels pulled the sky back in four different directions, exposing a window into heaven. What happened next came in rapid succession. Two beams of light shot from the throne room toward the northern part of Dallas. Each beam was thin, like a bright white laser, and pinpointed a different location in the distance. Both beams remained fixed across the sky. Jim knew the beams pointed toward Jackie and Simbatu, but he didn't know why there were two beams of light.

   They got in the car and Jim sped toward the spot where the nearest beam touched the earth. As their car approached it, the beam began to expand. When he turned away from the beam, it became thinner.

   Shanha was sitting in the back seat, but leaned forward. She'd remembered something Jim had read to her from the Bible. "Papa, when God showed the three wise men where the baby Jesus was, all he did was put a star above him."