Christmas Couragement by LoRee Peery

Author:LoRee Peery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
Publisher: Pelican Book Group (White Rose Publishing)
Published: 2016-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

8

Day Seven ’couragement

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. ~Isaiah 1:18

Liam repositioned the snowman card he’d added to his lineup. No light shone across the courtyard within Agape Wear. He’d seen no one approach the door for a handout, either. Why couldn’t she be happy working at the church? Used clothing could be collected and distributed with her working behind the scenes. Why did Zoe have to become personally involved?

He strode to his printer and retrieved the stack of photos from the night before, many of them snapped while in anger.

Back to a flash of Zoe lumbering off at the same time she zipped her coat. His mind kept rerouting her direction. Uncharacteristic for her to show she carried a heavy heart. She’d kept her head lowered and her shoulders bunched as though she’d been weighted down.

A burden he’d handed her. He hadn’t meant to hurt her. His desire was to watch out for her. The same as Camo Man.

He slapped his forehead and then dug his fingers into his temples. Zoe defended Camo Man, same as Liam strove to defend her, without considering Liam’s viewpoint. Why did the woman invade every thought?

Liam fanned the array of pictures over his work counter and then separated them. Color had wormed its way into his work. Smiling faces, posed skaters, milling people dressed in snowmen suits. He’d ignored the food venders and gone without eating. The artisans had drawn him to their wares, yet at sight of his camera, said he wasn’t free to take pictures of their crafts.

Crafts. He glanced across the courtyard again, anticipating rather than dreading a promised visitor. Zoe was going to love the knitted scarves and mittens a local woman made. She had sold them from her booth the night before. Marcella Jones gave them to customers who promised to pass them on to people in need, asking for yarn donations in exchange.

He’d talked to her about Agape Wear and suggested she have Zoe accumulate yarn donations. Givers rather than takers entering the shop would ease his mind considerably.

Soon he was deep in the zone where slices of life, rather than still life, ran through his fingers as he sorted the photos in groups based on complementary colors and subject matter.

“We need to talk.” Zoe stomped through the door he’d left unlocked.

His upper body jerked in reflex then relaxed as soon as he set eyes on her. “Hi, you’re late today.”

“Had a rough morning. You know I set my own hours. Don’t change the subject. I need to know why you look down on the underprivileged. Jesus showed compassion to everyone He met. His father created every human and looks at the heart. In the Bible we’re told to treat everyone as we would like to be treated.”

“Slow down, please. Let me lock the door. You’re right. You deserve to know where I got my jaded outlook. Bear with me. Want something to drink?”

“I’m fine.

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