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“You need a bitch, yo. Spittin’ some real shit: you need a damn woman to hold you down. Like, we know you good on ya business and daddy game. Shit, we even know you still strong on ya spiritual walk, so you ‘on’t even need help tamin’ ya shit. You just need some good ol’ R&R.”
“Companionship,” Frankie agreed. “You’re a good man, Sin. You deserve to have a woman worship you. Someone you feel free to pursue these big dreams you have with, minus the drama of obliquity.”
“Damn.” Jug’s forehead stretched. “What that mean?”
Frankie glared up at me. “Shi-Shi.”
She’d confirmed my perception unnecessarily.
“Oh, damn,” Juggy grumbled.
I nodded silently, done with the conversation. “Y’all got it. Been thinking this for a couple of months now. Guess I should put that on the list of other important shit I gotta do like…” I pushed my thumb over my shoulder. “…go put the lady of the house down for the night.”
Jug sighed as I backed away and turned to leave the kitchen.
“The Lord…”
Chivon repeated, “The Lord.”
“Is good to all…”
“Is…” She kicked her little leg over me possessively on the bed, then rubbed her eye.
“Is good to all,” I helped her out.
“Good to all.”
“And His mercy…”
“His mercy.”
“Is over all that…”
“Over that.”
“He has made.”
“He has made,” she yawned. “What that mean?”
“What does it mean?” I sighed, readjusting myself on the bed here in her bedroom reserved for her mother.
It was the only space big enough for the both of us to read the Word and pray at night before I tucked her into her own bed to sleep.
“It means everyone and thing born into the earth belongs to God.” I licked my lips, tight eyes narrowing. “And whatever belongs to God, He takes care of. He does it by this ‘candy’ He gives called mercy. That means He protects us from the bad things we do.” My eyes dropped down to her, knowing damn well my baby couldn’t grasp any of this. She wasn’t even three.
But I did believe I was conditioning her spirit to receive the precepts of God’s love each time we talked about Him.
Chivon’s head popped up. “Daddy…”
My heart melted at that one common yet most endearing title. “Yeah, Blueberry.”
“I sleepy,” she whined.
Yup…
She’d had enough of my cackle. We’d prayed and read the Word and now, baby girl was ready to go down.
I closed the children’s daily affirmations book and laid it on the nightstand. Then I scooped her to my chest before standing from the bed. I walked over to her low ass sleigh bed with railings, kissing her cheeks and chin along the way. Then I placed her on the mattress and pulled the little blanket over her curled body.
