That Little Brown Bible-A Poem

That Little Brown Bible


Staying up late searching the 
computer knowing there is a reason
why I'm up this late. Right before I 
go to bed, I see the reason. The reason
is that someone needed someone to talk
to. I stayed up and made plans. Going to 
bed because I have to get up in 7 hours 
and go to breakfast. Something I do 
in a great while if ever. Yet I was needed
there and that was the plan. Or at least 
I hoped it was. Too sleepy to stay up 
and see. 

Got up and went to breakfast that next
morning. I was the 1st on there. Hoping
that the message was got and I wouldn't
be sitting there alone. I got my breakfast
and started to eat it. Next thing I know I 
wasn't alone. After a few minutes, I heard 
a "good morning" and saw a smile in front 
and across from me. Asking if this 
sit was taken. I said, "no." We didn't 
talk much, which now I regret a little 
bit but I noticed something very 
important. 

Not only did I notice the break that was 
across from me. Fried eggs, grits, and 
whatever else was on that plate. I noticed 
something more important. I noticed that 
on top of the text book, there was a little 
brown bible on there. I remember what 
was said and that was, "I didn't know 
if you got my message back or not so 
I brought my Bible just in case. 

You see when I woke up I made sure to 
check and see if I got a message back 
before I had to walk all the way to 
breakfast because it was a long walk 
for that early in the morning and we 
both had class right afterwards. To be
honest, I didn't think about that little 
brown Bible a lot back then and what it 
meant because where we were everyone 
had a Bible at some point or carried one 
around everywhere. But now as I think
back on it, it meant something and I knew 
it. 

That little brown Bible was the hope that 
I needed to get through the years I had 
ahead of me and I'm not just talking 
about the Bible itself. Yet when you see 
it with a person that early in the morning 
and seeing that that person would have 
spent time with God if I didn't show up
should tell you something. Yet sometimes 
we get away from those small moments 
and forget what really matters and that 
we should be taking our Bible everywhere 
with us because we never know who 
will notice it. 

For me and that morning at breakfast, 
it was me that noticed it and then really 
noticed the person that had it. It was a 
surprise for me because where I came 
from it was very seldom if at you that 
you say people carrying a Bible around 
just because. Granted it was a Christian 
college but still. That morning has never 
left my mind in the years past that one. 
What we do can leave a impact on people
so we have to be careful about what we 
say and how we act. 



Written By: Tiffney Wilson 

Written On: September 28th, 2018


Just couldn't get the image out of my mind until I wrote about it. Now, hopefully, it won't come back for awhile. There is a reason for all of this but I can't share it on a public blog.