Morning Star Fellowship - part 5

In the last installment Jason Kealy learned that a baby brother or sister was on the way.

Jeremy
Jason was a little more than 5 1/2-years-old when his baby brother Jeremy was born.  By this time their father had already graduated from seminary and was working full time at the church as an assistant pastor.

Alice told Jason that she needed his help in taking care of his baby brother.  Naturally the choleric in Jason came right out.  He took his new duties as big brother very seriously.  If Alice needed something for the baby, Jason hurried and got it for her.

Jeremy grew to be a quiet little boy.  He had Fred's brown hair and deep-blue eyes.  There were times when those blue eyes of Jeremy's just stared at everything around him as if he was silently taking in all of the details.  Sometimes Jason wondered what his little brother was thinking.  But Jason enjoyed that Jeremy was usually quiet and peaceful.  He had friends at church and at school who had younger siblings who talked back at them and fought with them.  He was glad that his little brother was not like that.

Jason was almost 10-years old and Jeremy only 4 when their parents told them that they were going to have a new baby brother or sister.  Jeremy just smiled like he was happy about the announcement.

Jason immediately questioned, "Will the baby be quiet like Jeremy?"

Fred replied, "Well, Son, babies have different personalities.  We can't guarantee if this baby is going to be quiet or noisy.  Only God knows that."

Meanwhile, Fred and Alice hoped that they would finally have a daughter.  But what if the baby was another boy?  When they were going through names they decided to find a name that could be for a boy or a girl.  So they picked the name Lindsey.