A Simple Hope: A Lancaster Crossroads Novel by Lauer Rosalind

Author:Lauer, Rosalind [Lauer, Rosalind]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345543295
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

As James rolled toward home, he imagined himself riding a wave that carried him along to a safe shore, pushed by the hand of Gott, the same mighty hand that once parted the Red Sea for Moses and Gott’s followers.

The wave had begun gathering this morning when Rachel had appeared on the front porch, telling him that she would be the one to drive him into town. Her blue eyes had seemed cool, even stern, but he could see her hesitance in the way her hands worried the pins of her white apron. And then, in that moment, he knew, and his heart sang.

He hadn’t lost her, after all. Despite his attempts to push her away, to cut her loose and let her swim off like a glittering fish, she simply swam right back to him.

Within minutes of her arrival on the porch, they were talking and sharing stories like always. There seemed to be no wall between them as they traveled the road to Paradise. More than once, James had felt the urge to let his hand drift toward her, to touch her arm or brush against her leg. How he longed to pull her into his arms once again!

But he had resisted, reminding himself that he was still not the complete man she deserved to have as a husband. There was hope—that strong white dove, beating its wings steadily—but it had not landed. It had barely taken flight.

And then, the treatment. Gott be praised! The bath of electricity was bringing nerves and muscles in his legs to life again. None of the docs or technicians at the clinic had asked about results, and he had kept this news to himself. “We’ll monitor our progress after seven days,” Doc Finley had told him. But James wasn’t sure he could wait that long to put his legs to the test. Tomorrow, if these pins and needles and muscle contractions kept happening, he was going to speak up.

Even the bristly concern over the Englisher girl in the sugar shack had not whittled down his enthusiasm. Shandell’s attachment to the book of Bible stories had sweetened his view of her, and the more he talked with her, the more he knew in his heart that Gott had meant him to help her.

The Almighty didn’t make mistakes. Gott had put Shandell in James’s path for a reason, and James was sticking by his decision to help her.

He was still a good five minutes from the porch when the rain began to fall—fat, hard drops that pelted his hat and shoulders.

Let it rain, he thought, savoring the smell of damp earth and wet leaves. Let Gott’s love rain down on me.

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