Chapter 21

Wherein Muftiah... Instead Of Farlan... Receives To Relocate... For A Change... And In Quite A Unique... Oblique Way...!

There were the usual eighteen months... that Farlan and Muftiah... lived in Tampa... in sunny Florida... the Sunshine State... Sent down there... from Grand Bay... Alabama... by an Angel of God... so that they would avoid... experiencing the devastating... destructive onslaught... of gigantic Hurricane Frederick... which furiously pounded... the Gulf Coast...

And during that time... it was the Will of God... that they first experience... dire poverty... all winter long... for their necessary Spiritual Growth... and Development... with Farlan... finally working... as an electrician... for the giant corporation... of Honeywell... for a few months... with lots of overtime...

However... by the time they left... they were living... in a spanking new condo... on a golf course... just north of Tampa... jawing cheek to jowl... with the elite... of the Country Club...!

Farlan... the scientific genius... still working... as an independent... successful Electrical & General Contractor... was planning for a future... in Hydroponic Tomatoes... the process of which... had come to fascinate him...!

And while he was surveying the local area... for the perfect farm land... he Received Guidance... to "Look North West...!" But... he found that all the very worst land... was located there...!

One morning... after days of increasing frustration... and disappointment... in being unable to find suitable land... after a roadside breakfast... during which brilliant Farlan... was explaining the whole hydroponic tomato business... to his dumb wife... with great enthusiasm... she was struggling hard... to cope with her feelings of fear... and trepidation...!

Remembering her most recent... frightening encounters... with her lifelong arch nemeses... the dreaded... dive-bomb "aburamushis" (cockroaches)... with her father... locking her into the bathroom... night after night.. with swarms of them... in their house... on the Bluff... in Yokohama... Japan... in order to force her... to overcome her lifelong terror of them... for he would tolerate no weaklings... under his roof...!

They were called Palmettos... in Florida... and she had great difficulty... in having to resign herself... to the dismal picture... of continuing to live out her future there... with them... always lurking around her... threateningly... continuously having to call up the sympathetic... understanding exterminator... to get rid of them for her...

Her Heavenly Father... Allah Almighty God... Must Have Had Sympathy for her... because... as they were about to get... into their car... after breakfast... with Muftiah feeling low... and depressed...

Out of the blue... she... now fifty years old... and still looking twenty years younger... suddenly found herself... Spreading Out Her Arms Wide... And Lifting Them Up To Heaven... While At The Same Time... Very Much Aware... Of The Vibrant Youth... Of Her Twenty Year Old Spiritual Self... Proclaimed... With A Feeling Of Great Joy... Inside Her...:

"It Will Be So Nice... To See The Mountains... And Green Trees Again... With Lovely Birds... Flying Overhead...!"

And as Farlan... in whose veins... flow a fascinating mixture... of English... Irish... German... and Red Indian blood... of the Cherokee... and being a descendant... of the great General Andrew "Stonewall" Jackson... heard her joyful... Received Words... and saw her Beaming... Radiant face... he just stood there... still lanky and tall... with not an ounce of fat on him... with his noble face... in total shock...

Then sighing... he said...:

"Well... I guess that's it... because there are no mountains in Florida...!"

And all his keen interest... in hydroponic tomato-growing... evaporated... in that instant... inside him...!

Looking around him in a daze... he remarked...:

"Everything around me... looks so strange to me now...!"

Muftiah felt the same way... too... and had the distinct feeling... that Florida... was now suddenly "dead" for them...!

Their Jiwas... seemed to have already left the area...!

Sending out probes... to...:

"Now Time To Go Up... To The Great Northwest...!"

... as Farlan Received... his Divine Guidance... the very next day...!

...read more in Chapter 22

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