Looking for Cassandra Jane (The Second Chances Novels) by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Greenbrier Book Company
Published: 2012-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

On our third day in California, almost a week after we’d left Brookdale, the seven of us gathered out at the end of the driveway just before sunset, right next to the road, to officially dedicate the farm to God’s service.

The brothers had constructed a rustic sign made of twigs nailed and glued to an old barn board that announced who we were to all passersby: The Promised Land. First we sang praise songs as River and Stone set the posts into the muddy ground. Then we all got down on our knees, right there in the dirt and gravel, and prayed that God would richly bless us and our new home.

I don’t think Gram ever knew that we had renamed the place, but then perhaps it didn’t really matter since, as Sky so eloquently put it (during our little dedication ceremony): “In all actuality, this land belongs to God and God alone—and he is simply loaning it to us for this season. Let us pray that we use it for his glory.”

To my surprise, the sisters didn’t resent my new role of leadership—at least not at first. Well, other than Moonlight, that is, but then I think she would’ve resented anyone other than herself in this role. I suppose she made her objections fairly obvious by the way she ignored me most of the time.

Fortunately Sunshine and Breeze seemed to respect that I knew a little more about cooking and housekeeping than they did, but then I’d had most of my life to learn these things whereas they’d lived in “normal” households with mothers who apparently took care of all these troublesome domestic chores for them. As it turned out, other than me, Breeze was the only one who actually knew how to do laundry—and so I immediately appointed her head laundress. And since Gram’s dryer was broken down, this was no easy task. The small clothesline quickly proved inadequate for the drying needs of eight people. Fortunately for Breeze none of us were overly consumed with cleanliness (back then we had a tendency to wear our clothes for days without laundering) but between sheets and towels and Gram’s needs it was definitely a daily chore, and it wasn’t long before the brothers got a bigger, sturdier line hung.

When I informed the sisters that we were to begin wearing dresses, and as soon as possible, I experienced some natural resistance. But I wisely suggested they take their grievances up with Sky. And he quickly set them straight on this issue, quoting by memory from the Bible about how women were to be modestly dressed and not to cut their hair, which wasn’t a problem since we all wore our hair long and had no intention of cutting it anyway. So the new spiritual dress code was agreed upon.

I located Gram’s sewing closet during that first week, and although Sky had told me to “appropriate” whatever I needed (because everything really belonged to God anyway) I somehow felt obliged to approach Gram first.

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