Changing Her Heart by Gail Sattler

Author:Gail Sattler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2006-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Randy grumbled to himself as he set the last control to get the sound he wanted. He was having a particularly hard time getting everything right, but he also knew the reason.

He was allowing himself to become distracted. Every time someone new walked into the sanctuary, he kept looking up to see if it was Lacey.

And every time it wasn’t.

The service was ready to start, and she still wasn’t there.

He had a bad feeling he knew why. He’d almost lost it last night. He’d wanted to kiss her again, but at the last minute, he’d bolted.

He couldn’t kiss her, because he didn’t have that right.

But she would have kissed him. Any fool could have seen that.

And he was a fool.

In the privacy of the sound room booth, Randy closed his eyes and pressed his hands over his face. Lord God, don’t let her hate me. Tell me what to do.

Behind him, the door creaked open. He quickly lowered his hands and tapped one of the control knobs.

“Hi, Randy. Sorry I’m late. Kaitlyn wouldn’t leave without her favorite teddy bear, and we almost couldn’t find it.”

He turned around to smile, his heart pounding so hard he was positive Lacey could hear it. “No problem. I was just beginning to wonder if you were going to make it.”

She sighed. “I hate walking into church after everything has started, although I do know a lot of people at my church who arrive promptly five minutes after the service begins, week after week.”

“Yeah. Same here.”

The music of the first song ended. Randy set the PowerPoint to a scenery picture as Paul stepped closer to the microphone and welcomed everyone. Randy adjusted the volume levels while the congregation greeted one another at Paul’s invitation.

He watched Lacey out of the corner of his eye as she stood at the window. When his friends on the worship team waved at the window, Lacey waved back.

“I know you can’t tell me what was said at the meeting, but whatever it was, you were right. Eric’s been different this morning. He didn’t lose his temper when Kaitlyn couldn’t find her bear. He even helped find it instead of storming off and waiting in the car while Susan did everything.”

“Good. Just remember, though, that this isn’t going to be an instant, overnight change. There will be ups and there will be downs.”

“I know. But I thought you’d like to know that we’ve started to see some ups.”

At Lacey’s words, last night’s speaker’s words echoed through his head like a clanging gong. The man had been emphatic in telling everyone at the meeting, both men and the women, to respect and nurture that special someone God put into their paths, because often, there were no second chances. And if there was a second chance, to grab it and never let it go.

Up until last night, Randy hadn’t considered that with his history, he was capable of being involved in a nurturing relationship; he couldn’t participate because he thought he had nothing to give.

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