Chapters 40-41: Preacher Finds a Corpse - Bonus Audiobook Episode GP722

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Episode GP722 Description

Evan confronts Edie and tells her how Bob's last wishes are sure to be carried out. He gets a startling confession from one of his friends about what really happened the morning Bob died.

GP722 Preacher Finds a Corpse - Chapters 40 and 41 (22:05 minutes)

Chapter 40

Friday Evening

Taggart House

Evan chose not to announce his arrival. He found Edie in the kitchen slicing carrots. She was making vegetable stew. She’d responded courteously to his knock and welcomed him in with seeming graciousness. She poured him coffee as he sat at the counter, just as she had before. You’d think his dropping by was a usual and neighborly thing with them. She even remembered he took extra sugar.

She was trying to appear calm. “Come to pay your respects?” she asked, finally turning to face him as she wiped her hands on her apron. And she pointed in the direction of the fireplace. “He’s right over there.”

There was a gleaming rectangular hardwood case on the mantel.

“He’s not in there, you know,” he told her. “And I doubt he’s hovering around here anywhere.”

“Is that what you think?”

“It’s what I believe. When we die, we return to God, but not necessarily as individuals. What’s in the urn are endlessly borrowed and recycled molecules, shared with billions of other people — and with plants and animals — who came before us. He’s in a better place than here, it’s joyful. There’s nothing to experience and everything to know. I doubt if anyone living can understand what it’s like. There’s nothing to learn. That’s for down here, on Earth, in this world where we’ve chosen to act out our dramas.”

“I don’t know about any of that,” she said, not admitting to her starring role in this drama. “I just didn’t want him in a cardboard box in the basement.”

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