Tara Road
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Someone always behaved badly at the office party. This year it was Orla King, a girl who had drunk half a bottle of vodka before the festivities had even started. She tried to sing, “In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight.”
“You live in Dalton, Georgia? I can’t imagine Dalton, Georgia. Do you live in an apartment, or do you have a house with a garden?” “I have a house, and I have a garden, too, but we call it a yard.” “I suppose, in such a climate, you can grow practically everything.”
― The Shell Seekers
― The Shell Seekers
“During the segment when people could come forward for prayer, anything at all could happen. Once when I was praying over a woman, she fell completely out in the Spirit. Now, we were interdenominational and we dearly loved and cherished our many Pentecostal attendees, but this was early on, and I already knew the fastest way to get shut down by the Baptists was for people to start falling out. I bent over, grabbed sister by the waist on her way down, slung her deadweight up like a sack of flour, hooked her chin onto my shoulder, and whispered with no small measure of authority, “With everything in me, I ask God to bless you and grant your petitions, but I’m gonna need you to wake up in Jesus’ name or I’m gonna get fired.” She came to a few seconds later. I never did figure out what happened to make her drop the way she did, but it was months before I got guts enough to lay hands on someone again. Another”
― All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
― All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
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