Priel

It was finally Eric’s turn.
“Eric, what do you think about all this?”
“Honestly Mama I am disgusted and sick. I want to know if Gabriel knew this information about Elijah. I am just going to stay away from all of them. Judging by the events of the Passover, I feel like he knew everything that was going on with Elijah. There was really nothing I could say.”
‘I am glad to hear you say that on your own son.”
I knew how hurt he was to read the reports.
We finished our meeting at the kitchen table and Sheldon grabbed the keys to my car and followed me to return the van to the car rental location. We dropped off the van, I got in my car with Sheldon and he drove home.
“Mama, I was not surprised to read any of that information. I never felt good about any of that Hebrew Israelite stuff. I never cosigned on any of that mess.
You did the right thing not saying a word to Gregory. He lost his mind behind kissing Gabriel’s ass. The whole trip back all he did was talk about how the Most High had blessed the event and how Gabriel is the only Israelite leader that knows pure truth. You would have been wasting your breath on trying to tell him what was going on. He can only hear what Gabriel says. The only time he will think that he should not be around Elijah is if Gabriel tells him.”
Sheldon was right about everything that he was saying.
“Sheldon, that information was intended for us. I will talk to Gabriel about it later. I have to tell him so that he can never say that he did not know.”
Sheldon looked very concerned.
“Mama, however you want to handle it is fine with me. You are holding onto a time bomb. I don’t want you to talk to Gabriel by yourself. He might try to hurt you or something. You need to invite him over to our house an...

... middle of paper ...

... to her, but I did want her to know that Christians are above no other religions. They make mistakes too. Finally Mama said,
“Well child, I understand what you are saying. You continue to go your own way and do whatever you are going to do. I love you just the same.”
Before Mama hung up the phone I asked her if I could stop by to see her later on after she got off from work. Mama said
“No Trina, I’m busy, don’t trouble yourself. You just keep doing whatever it is that you are going to do. I love you.”
Mama hung up the phone. The conversation was very hollow. I could tell that Mama was fed up with me and my decision to keep myself separate from the church. I cared. I did not want to hurt her, but I knew that I could not bring myself to sit in a church pretending to love Jesus, just to please my mother. I could not allow myself to go back to living a lie again.