A Heartbeat Away: A Novel by Harry Kraus

Author:Harry Kraus
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian, medical thriller, Harry Kraus, Fiction, Heartbeat Away, Suspense, cellular memory
ISBN: 9781434705112
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2012-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

It was several weeks before Christian went back to the hospital to round with his father, and several months before he learned how to deal more effectively with his “gift.”

He called it that because that’s what his mother had dubbed it. “Call it what you want,” she said. “But your ability to see below the surface and feel people’s real needs is special. It’s God-given.”

At first, Christian was skeptical, but more and more, as he tested it, he was dead-on with his accuracy. In one situation after another, he applied his discernment. With one person, he’d sense loneliness. With another, a broken heart. With another, an unforgiving nature. Gently he probed his friends in conversations that plunged beneath a surface of calm into the cold water of their pain. Their reactions were similar. How did you know? I’ve never told anyone.

At school, it became obvious that an interaction with Christian Mitchell would be more than a flippant banter about sports or the weather. Classmates sought him out for advice.

At the hospital, his father respected Christian’s impressions. If Christian sensed that a patient needed extra attention, he was free to stay behind during rounds and pray.

Over time, he learned not to bear the burden himself. His mother taught him the necessity of unloading his concerns on God, taking him back to one of her favorite verses in the Bible, Casting all your care upon him for he cares for you.

His joy returned.

In April, he received his acceptance letter to the University of Virginia, where he planned to study biology as a premedical student.

Throughout high school, after Emily Greene, Christian didn’t date. Mostly, he found the girls in his class to be consumed with the daily drama of who liked whom, clothing, and sports, while he wanted to understand the whispers of the Holy Spirit and the Bible.

On spring nights he liked to lie out on the rugby field and look at the dusting of the Milky Way. Show me your ways.

And sometimes he wondered if Emily gazed at the same stars, thought the same thoughts, or dreamed the same dreams.

He remembered her kisses.

Those he would never forget.

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