Tapper's First Day With Smurfette

"Tapper's First Day With Smurfette" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. - It was on a day five years before Empath's final return from Psychelia and shortly after Smurfette was first created that she went walking through the woods on a bright Sunday morning, skipping merrily through the forest and singing the Smurf song, when she noticed Tapper all by himself, reading from a book in solitude.

"Hello there, Tapper," Smurfette pleasantly greeted. "What are you smurfing here in the forest all by yourself?"

"Oh, smurf o' the morning to you, my dear Smurfette," Tapper greeted back. "I was just smurfing some private time away from my work in the village to be with the One who created all living things."

"You mean with Mother Nature?" Smurfette asked.

"No, Smurfette, I mean with the Almighty, the one true God who is the Maker of heaven and earth," Tapper replied.

"I don't understand who this Almighty is supposed to be," Smurfette said, sounding confused.

"That's okay if you don't understand at first, Smurfette," Tapper said. "You see, the Almighty has implanted in every creature the desire to know who their Creator is. That's why they will smurf their entire lifetimes looking for the answer through creation itself, although if they are truly sincere in their search for the one true God, He will make himself known to them."

"How did you come to know about this Almighty that you smurf of, Tapper?" Smurfette asked.

"It was a sad time that me and my fellow Smurfs had smurfed through when we were just wee Smurflings, Smurfette, and we had just Papa Smurf to lead us into becoming young adult Smurfs," Tapper said, his voice becoming a bit somber. "I had no trust in that one adult Smurf would be able to accomplish this impossible task of having us smurf an entire village together to function at the hands of mere Smurflings, so I ran away from the village. But soon after I was chased by a wolf, and in that chase I was smurfed downstream into a raging river, and I would have drowned if it weren't for the intervention of a kind angel who told me that I was chosen by the Almighty for a special purpose. And just as she disappeared, she smurfed behind this book that I'm reading called the Holy Scriptures, which is how I have come to know about the Almighty."

"And this book has smurfed you into the Smurf that you are now, Tapper?" Smurfette asked.

"Not at first, Smurfette," Tapper answered. "I was still fearful and I didn't believe everything that I read in the holy book during my early years. But over time the Almighty impressed upon me that He was very much real and that He truly loved me before I was born and that He would watch over the entire village if I would smurf my faith in Him to do so."

To be continued.