Above the Fear by Joan Fennell Carringer

Author:Joan Fennell Carringer [Fennell Carringer, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-30T22:00:00+00:00

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AS SOON AS SUZI WAS GONE, John listened to what his friend and former pastor in California, Sam Bower, was saying.

“Norman Moore came to see me last night. He told me he had something on his mind that he couldn’t shake and thought I should know about it.”

John smiled. “Norman’s a good fellow. I like him.” Norman was one of the few friends he’d left behind in California.

“He likes you, too. That’s why he was so troubled.”

John’s eyes narrowed quizzically as he waited for Sam to continue.

“He said somebody came up to him one day early last week and started asking him questions about you, John. He told Norman he was an old friend of yours who had lost contact and he’d like to see you again. You know Norman. He never hesitates to give information first and think about it later. He told the man you were in North Carolina, even the town where you are, but that he didn’t have the full address. It wasn’t until the man left that Norman realized he hadn’t given his name, and Norman started worrying that the man wasn’t a friend at all, that maybe he was somebody from your past that you might not want in your life again.”

John sighed. Sam and a few of his church friends, which included Norman, were the only ones who knew the sad shape he’d been in before he found the Lord.

“Norman begged me to get in touch with you and tell you he was sorry if he gave information to the wrong person and he hoped it didn’t cause you any trouble. He was pretty shaken. He kept saying he was glad he didn’t have your phone number to give him.”

“Did he say what the man looked like?”

“He said he was a big man with dark hair and a mustache, pleasant looking and dressed neatly.”

“And that could be anybody.” After a brief pause, John continued. “You haven’t heard anything else, have you?” He didn’t have to tell Sam what he was referring to. He already knew.

“Not one word about Sheila or Ricky.”

“Something unusual happened here a couple weeks ago. This old man named Ottie…….” John went on to tell Sam of Ottie’s revelation, concluding with his own thoughts that he believed Ottie really had received the message from God. “I wish he’d told me more,” he finally said. “I’m working for his son, Lane, and Lane had Ottie at his house one day last week. I got to talk to him for a little while, but he told me he had no idea why he’d said what he had, that God had put the words in his mouth, and he didn’t know any more about it than I did. I can’t stop thinking about what he said, that I would find Ricky, but I’d have a surprise when I did.”

“Perhaps you and Sheila will get back together again.”

“I thought about that, but the sad thing is, I don’t want it to be true.

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