A Love for Leah by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Could faith overcome anything? Honestly, Leah wasn’t sure. She had been told her entire life that faith was all a person needed. If you had faith, then God would take care of the rest.

But she had never seen it at work. She’d had faith as a young woman going into her runaround years, and she had left to protect her sister. No amount of faith could keep Hannah in Amish country. She’d had faith when Hannah told her she was marrying Mitch McLean. And that hadn’t turned out at all, unless she counted Brandon on the plus side. He was definitely a plus as far as she was concerned.

She supposed faith had played a big part in her decision to go to Central and South America and work as a missionary. The living conditions in the places she had been were abysmal. Faith played a part in every sip of water and every bite of food, every minute of sleep and every beautiful sunrise.

But this was something entirely different. It was one thing to pray and believe that God would help work it out, and another to go blindly into whatever life handed out. Jamie was a smart man; smart enough to understand. Smart enough to figure it out. Smart enough to do more than just trust in God when it came to Peter. She wanted to shake Jamie—something, anything to get him to see clearly.

And the two of them? That was another matter entirely.

“Are you going to sit there all evening and stare at Jim’s house, or are you coming to help me at Jamie’s?”

Leah stirred herself from her thoughts and turned to find Gracie standing just outside the front door of the house, a large Dutch oven in her hands.

“What are you doing at Jamie’s?”

“We talked about this yesterday.” Gracie tsked. “Eunice wants me to go up there and make sure they have something to eat for the next few days. You said you would help.”

She didn’t recall. But she supposed she had. As much as she disliked cooking, it sounded like something she would do, offer to cook for someone in need, but lately her brain seemed too full and things kept slipping out. Like promises to help. Good thing she drove out here after work. Brandon had gone to supper with Shelly and her family, and Leah couldn’t stand being in the apartment all alone.

It was ridiculous. When she had moved in that had been her intention: to live alone. But now that she had Brandon, or maybe it was all the time she was spending out on the farm with her family—whatever it was, the place seemed too empty with only herself for company.

“Are you coming?” Gracie asked. A small frown of worry stretched itself across her forehead.

“Of course.” Leah pushed to her feet. She didn’t want Gracie to have to go to Jamie’s by herself. Who knew what she might find? Leah herself had hardly seen Jamie since the beautiful Deborah had arrived in Pontotoc.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.