Hide and Secret by Kathleen Fuller

Author:Kathleen Fuller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book, Inspirational
ISBN: 1400317193
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

The woods were dark at night. And cold. The wind bit through Jeremiah’s sweater. He shivered without his coat. He had no idea where his father and Amos were. For the past hour he’d wandered around the woods, thinking about all the ways he’d messed things up.

The beam of the flashlight caught the base of the treehouse. He quickly scaled up the tree, entered the house, and sat on the floor. Numb. Every part of him, inside and out, felt numb.

“God, I’m sorry.” He whispered the words into the darkness. “I didn’t mean to betray Amos. And disappoint Fraa Bender. And Daed. And Grossmammi.”

He waited. He’d grown up hearing from his grossmammi and the ministers at church that praying, especially confessing, would make him feel better. Instead, he felt abandoned. Was God listening to him? Did He even care?

Lately, everything Jeremiah tried to do made things worse. More than ever, he was convinced that leaving the Amish was the only answer. He would be able to become a vet, and his family would be better off without him. Amos would learn to stand on his own. His father wouldn’t have any choice but to be patient with him, to teach him how to farm. Grossmammi could help Amos with his schoolwork. She certainly wouldn’t teach him how to cheat.

Leaving his family would be the best thing for everyone. His mother had left their family and her faith behind. Maybe that’s how she had felt too, that they would all be better off without her.

Memories of the night she’d disappeared surfaced. She’d left while everyone was asleep. Didn’t leave a note or an explanation. Jeremiah had been seven, Amos eight. He remembered Amos crying the whole day. Jeremiah had tried to console him, but he couldn’t, not when his heart felt just as broken. Their father had been silent for a week, sullen for months. That had been six years ago, and he had never fully recovered.

But this was different. Right now his father was so angry, he’d probably be glad to see Jeremiah go. And Amos would have other people looking out for him. Like Anna Mae. She would keep her promise. He knew she cared for Amos almost as much as Jeremiah did. Besides, Jeremiah couldn’t believe he was turning his back on God if this was where God was leading him. And his grandmother had told him to follow wherever He led . . . even, Jeremiah decided, if that meant running away.

Ya, that’s what he should do. He had a cousin who lived near Cleveland. His family had left the Amish too, and Jeremiah hadn’t seen them since. But he could figure out where they lived by looking on the Internet at the library. Surely if he called them, they would let him stay with them until he could figure things out.

Still, he needed money, more than the fifty dollars he’d saved and stored in the bottom drawer under his shirts.

He got up and paced back and forth across the small space.

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