Roberta walked down the hallways of the radio station. It was Monday morning and the whole station was buzzing with preparations for the morning shifts. She was about an hour early for her own shift, but that was expected. She still had to do show prep and find a bible verse for the week. Being the messenger for the Lord was hard work and she wanted to get started on it as soon as possible.

“Hey, Bertie,” Henry, her program director said as she passed him by. She stopped her stride and returned his greeting.

“Praise the Lord, Henry,” she said. “How are you this morning?”

“Blessed, as usual. I see you’re ready to give out cookies for your weekly bible verse.”

She glanced at the tin under her arm. The faint smell of home baked cookies wafted up between them. “I sure am,” she said, then raised an inquisitive eyebrow. “Do you know last week’s verse?”

“Um…” He paused and then smiled sheepishly. “Now you know us program directors get busy during the week.”

“Shame on you!” she said. “If The Almighty can create the heaven and earth for you and still have time to answer your prayers, you have time to memorize a little verse.”

“You’re right. I’ll memorize the one for this week to make it up to you.”

“You’d better. I’ve got chocolate chip this week.”

“Ah, my favorite! See you in an hour, Bertie.”

Roberta said her goodbyes and walked the rest of the way to her office. Her office was as quaint as her home was – the faint smell of vanilla from the potpourri on her desk filled the room, neatly framed bible verses on decorative paper hung delicately on the walls. Her desk was even neat and quaint with tiny statues of large eyed children praying, saucer eyes turned up to God. There were photographs of places she’d been with friends and members of her church. There was even a picture of her standing beside her minister, both smiling pleasantly, sitting behind her on the bookshelf, but no pictures of family members or of a husband or children. Just her family in Christ. And she was happy with it that way. The things on earth were irrelevant in the long run anyway, even the people in it.