A Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury

Author:Karen Kingsbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781602554481
Publisher: Grupo Nelson
Published: 2005-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

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notes from a dusty piano, Denny’s voice rang out and lifted to an audience of One. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t carry a tune or if the cat woke up and thought he was crazy. All Denny cared about was the song.

The words to the song.

Great is Thy faithfulness, oh God my Father There is no shadow of turning with Thee.

Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be.

He hummed a bit then, because he didn’t yet know all the words. But one day he would. Until then, he would sing the part he knew.

Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness Morning by morning new mercies I see.

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided; Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

It was Thursday night again, and the craft store scrapbooking class was empty except for Abby and Jo and two other women. Abby was midway through Nicole’s highschool years and making good progress, despite Jo’s ongoing banter.

There were two hours left in the session when Jo took a deep breath and leveled a new line of questions in Abby’s direction.

“You think you’re going to heaven, Abby? I mean really … like there’s a place called heaven that some people go to when they die?” Abby blinked and set down the photograph in her hand. It wasn’t

something she’d thought about much lately, but surely it was true. She’d given her life to Christ ages ago, and even though her personal life was a mess, that didn’t mean God had rejected her, right? She gulped discreetly. “Yes, I’d say I was going to heaven.”

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“A real place called heaven? You think you’re actually going they ut that.” She grabbed a quick breath. “What kind of loving God someday?” Jo rattled off the next question without giving Abby time Would send someone to hell?”

to answer. “Not just a fantasy place, like an idea or a dream, but a real I’m not up to this, Lord. Speak formed here, please. Her heart filled place?”

With words that were not her own. “People get a little mixed up when Abby sighed. It was enough to be racked with guilt where John they think about God.

See, when a person dies, God doesn’t really was concerned, but being forced to think about heaven, too … it was rend him anywhere.”

almost more than she could bear. They were halfway through the six-Jo’s face wrinkled in confusion. “There’s only one God, right? month prison sentence of pretending they were happily married, Who else might be doin’ the sending?”

halfway to the day when they would file divorce papers. What do I Abby smiled.

Lord, she really doesn’t know. Thank You, God, for the know about heaven? “Yes, Jo, it’s a real place. As real as anything here.” privilege of telling her. “The way I understand it from Scripture, we For the first time since she’d met the woman, Jo Harter had no make the decision for ourselves. When we die, God simply honors response.

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