A Touch of Romance: A Christian Romance (Callaghans & McFaddens Book 6) by Kimberly Rae Jordan

Author:Kimberly Rae Jordan [Jordan, Kimberly Rae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Three Strand Press
Published: 2018-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Though that might have been a legitimate question, Belle shook her head and laughed. “No. Someone like your mom.”

“Oh.” His expression relaxed as he shifted on his seat. “I suppose so. I mean, she’s loving and caring. We never doubted that she loved us, even though four of us didn’t share blood with her. She always made time for Dad and for us. So yeah, you could do worse than having a spouse that was like that.”

“You wouldn’t want a wife home all the time like her?” Belle wasn’t sure why she was asking him questions like that, but she chalked it up to her curiosity about a family so different from her own.

Mitch looked down at his water glass, lifting it to take a sip before he answered. “I guess that would depend on what she wants. What sort of job she has. It would be something we’d have to decide together. But it’s not like I’ve made a list that has she must not work somewhere on it.”

He chuckled as he said it, and Belle joined him even though she wasn’t really feeling the humor in it. Once upon a time, the list she’d had of what she wanted in a husband had included things like that. Must make good money. Must have a good job. Even then, she felt that relying on something like love wasn’t going to cut it. That was probably how Andre had been able to get his hooks into her so easily. He’d ticked quite a few of those boxes for her.

“So you’re not concerned about her job or career? What she does?”

“Not really.” Mitch sat forward, resting his arms on the table, an earnest expression on his face. “When I was a teenager, a man spoke to us about how we could determine the character of a person we were thinking about dating. He used the Bible passage from first Corinthians thirteen. Are you familiar with it?”

Belle nodded. “I’ve heard it at church, for sure, and I hear it a lot at wedding ceremonies, especially the ones taking place in a church.”

“Yeah. Anyway, he told us we should substitute the name of the person we were dating for the word love. You know, like, instead of love is patient, we should say, for example, Susie is patient. Susie is kind. Susie does not envy…and so on.”

“Wow, that’s a pretty high standard to hold someone to,” Belle said, wondering how many of those statements would be true of her.

“Yeah, it is, and at first I thought it would be like holding someone to a standard they could never achieve.”

“At first?”

“I got to thinking about it later, realizing that any girl who was given that same advice might put my name in place of love. That’s when I realized two things. First, it is important to look for those attributes in a person. Obviously no one is perfect, and a person may have times when they are envious or impatient, but at least they should be striving for those things.

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