Halfway to Forever by Karen Kingsbury

Author:Karen Kingsbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781590526330
Publisher: Multnomah Fiction
Published: 2005-09-26T22:00:00+00:00

Tanner? Certainly there were reasons for the hard times they were

facing, but was her cancer His way of punishing her? At least in part?

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The idea flew in the face of everything she knew about the

!Lord.

Jade had studied Scripture on the matter and realized there

were two schools of thought. The first read that anyone who

divorced, except for reasons of marital unfaithfulness, and then married another was guilty of adultery. The second group tended to look past the exception and see only the last part of the verse. Marriage after divorce was adultery, pure and simple.

Most of the time Jade sided with the first group. The idea that God would be merciful to a person whose spouse had chosen to take up with another seemed more like God than the second viewpoint.

But sometimes... Jade wondered. What other reason was there for the trial they were suffering if God wasn't angry with her? With both of them? Her sobs returned with a vengeance.

She didn't know how long she stayed there, silently begging God to forgive her, but after a while, the back door opened and Helen appeared. "Ty's going home with his friend. He'll be spending the night there if that's okay"

"It's fine." Jade hung her head. "Thanks."

Jade couldn't take another evening inside waiting for Tanner's return, trying to stay awake long enough to exchange a few shallow sentences. Her head hurt worse than it had in weeks and she couldn't keep her fingers from trembling. Maybe death was right around the corner; maybe the Lord would come for her tonight.

Her tears came harder. "Helen, I need... to get out of here." She turned so she could see the older woman, and the effort was exhausting.

"Well, I don't know..." Helen was at her side, concern etched between the wrinkles on her forehead. "Maybe you should sleep first."

"No!" The tears made it almost impossible to talk. Jade held

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her breath and shook her head. Calm down, she ordered herself, but her heart raced in response. If this was her last night alive, there was no way she would spend it sleeping. When she could speak, she looked at Helen. "I have someplace to go. I'll need my chair."

Helen helped her into the house and, with a shaky hand, she

scribbled a note for Tanner.

I can't take it anymore, Tanner... I'll be out late. Don't wait up. I

love you more than you know.

Jade She studied it through a fresh layer of tears. So what if Tanner didn't know where she was? He hadn't been home enough to notice how bad she'd gotten; hadn't spent time with her and Ty the way he might have. Jade hesitated.

It was fear; it had to be.

Tanner cared, of course-he loved her more than his own

life-but whatever had come over him since her last seizure, his

absence was more than jade could stand. Especially now, with

death breathing down her neck. All of life had become a race for

survival. A race in which she was losing Tanner.

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