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    Jake Aloft
    Jake Aloft
    Jake Aloft
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    Jake Aloft

    By Matthew Montague

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    It happened at 10:57 on a sun-drenched morning in March in the middle of the first reading (Exodus 17:3-7) just as the lector, Bill Potter, read aloud about Moses striking the Rock of Horeb and the water flowing forth for the people, and their children, and their livestock to drink.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatthew Montague
    Release dateSep 3, 2010
    ISBN9781458082138
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    Matthew Montague

    Matt Montague raises kids and grass-fed beef in the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.Notes -Please feel free to review my writing. I am anxious to learn what people think.It is interesting to see "Jake" lagging my other stories in downloads as it is the only story to actually have been published.I know, I never charged before. But I am trying Google books and I think I *have* to charge. In any event, if this fails, I'll make them free again...thanks for reading.

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      Jake Aloft - Matthew Montague

      Jake Aloft

      By Matthew Montague

      It happened at 10:57 on a sun-drenched morning in March in the middle of the first reading (Exodus 17:3-7) just as the lector, Bill Potter, read aloud about Moses striking the Rock of Horeb and the water flowing forth for the people, and their children, and their livestock to drink.

      Jake Winters, who had been on his knees, rose slowly straight upward from his pew, his heels knocking on the seat as they passed by. His eyes were closed and his hands raised and held together, palms under his chin and his strong farmer fingers covering his eyes. As he rose higher, his knees could be seen, slightly apart, and his legs bent, and his heavy boots with toes worn from Jake using them to nudge close stall doors in the morning before Mass. Jake finally came to a stop, kneeling in mid-air, with his toes and knees about six feet above the church floor. He seemed unaware of his new position and, in fact, his jaw could be seen working under his hands as continued his prayer.

      It was a testament to Bill’s ability as a lector that no one noticed Jake for quite a long moment, but even with Bill’s rolling deep voice and the various concerns and worries and happenstance observances (Jeez Stan’s getting bald fast) that occupy a parishioner’s mind during Mass, it was inevitable that someone would notice Bill’s body was floating above their heads. In fact, it was Bill the lector who glanced up from the text to judge the congregation’s reaction to his pronunciation of Massah and Meribah (from the Lector Guidebook MAS-ah and MAIR-ih-bah)

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