Love Worth Keeping by Joyce Livingston

Author:Joyce Livingston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Six

Mike felt numb, thoroughly chastised, and very much alone. And he felt bad for Tessa.

He pushed back in the recliner and stared through watery eyes at the room. The very recliner he sat in had been a gift from his wife. It was his chair. No one else was allowed to sit in it. On the table beside the chair was his Bible, also a gift from Tessa. She’d given it to him on their tenth anniversary. He’d loved that Bible. Flipping open its pages, he found numerous notations he’d made in the margins. Notations he’d made while listening to their pastor on Sunday mornings or doing his early morning scripture readings and meditations at home. He’d highlighted James 4:8 on the open page that lay in his hand: “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

Is that where I began to go wrong, Lord? When I quit communing with You and ceased reading Your Word? He carefully closed the Bible and placed it back on the table, making sure to put it in the exact same spot.

Next, his gaze went to the clock on the wall. The clock he had given Tessa the year they moved into their house. What a time he’d had hanging that clock. She’d wanted it mounted directly on the brick fireplace. When he’d told her it was impossible, she had put it in the hall closet where it had remained until one evening when Ellen and Bill had come for a visit. When she’d mentioned the clock to him and where she’d wanted it, Bill had asked her to bring him the drill and, within a few minutes, the clock was hanging on the fireplace in the very place she’d wanted it. Mike remembered how foolish he’d felt. He could have put that clock there himself but instead of admitting he didn’t know how to mount it there, he’d lied and told her the job was impossible.

The matching sofas caught his attention. He could never imagine why anyone would want matching sofas. Two sofas in one room seemed foolish to him, but that’s what Tessa had wanted. Though he’d bought them for her, he’d never admitted how wonderful that pair of sofas had been in their home. They made the perfect conversation area, the way they faced one another in front of the fireplace. Why hadn’t he told her how much he’d grown to like them? Tessa had gone out of her way to make their house a home, doing the decorating herself, scouting out bargains at garage sales and flea markets. Every nook and cranny of their home was warm and inviting, and he’d barely been there to enjoy it.

He glanced at the wall over the desk and was surprised to see how many of his framed commendations were still hanging there. She hadn’t taken them down! Why not?

Across the room on an upper shelf in the bookcase sat two glass bluebirds, mementos of their honeymoon. Though he’d been short

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