October song by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub

run down, and tired, too what with the birth of your wee sons and daughter. Three babies. My, oh my, you must surely be wondering what our heavenly Father was a-thinkin’. But never forget that God knew what He was doing, sending you and Levi three children all at once. You can surely put your faith and trust in that.

I’m glad to hear you’ve got yourself several extra pairs of hands from the community helpin’ out. How I wish we lived as neighbors to you and Levi. You know I’d be over every morning, and what fun we’d have changing and dressing one baby after another. Must seem mind-bogglin’ for you, every so often, but I know you’re a wonderful-gut mother, Esther, and these early days won’t last forever. Try and take one day as it comes, all right? Surely, you don’t expect to keep the house neat as a pin just now. Nobody there thinks any differently, I’m sure. (If they do, best put ‘em to work mopping and cleaning, why don’tcha?)

Remember, we’re only a prayer apart.

Rachel put down her pen for a moment. She wondered if Esther’s mamma was

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plannin’ to make the trip out to Ohio. Hadn’t heard a word ‘bout it from anyone. Knowing Esther as she did, her cousin wouldn’t press theissue,wouldn’t come right out and ask her mother to come. But for Esther’s sake and her new babes in arms, Rachel hoped Aunt Leah would find it in her heart to indeed go.

I’ve been thinking ‘bout giving your mamma a call encourage her, you know. I’m praying ‘bout this, you can be sure. It’s time the gap is breached, I should say. ‘Tis past time.

She wouldn’t go on and on ‘bout the thorny problem, the wedge that had come between Esther and her mamma. No, best to trust the Lord on such matters.

Rachel continued writing.

It’s hard even for me to believe it, but Annie’s in the second grade this year al ready. Reads fairly well, I must say, and she’s right happy ‘bout printing her own name, as well as her new baby brother’s. Every day she comes home all smiles, eager to show her pop and me the lessons she’s learning. Philip went down to the neighborhood general store and bought a

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tiny chalkboard, just big enough for her to write her numbers on. ABC’s too.

Ach, you’d be surprised at how my Philip’s takin’ to fatherhood to the whole of the Amish community, too. So good, he is, with our little Gabriel. Likes to sit out in the yard with both Annie and Gabe of an evening, soakin’ up the things in nature that attracted him here in the first place, I s’pose. Things like an abandoned bird’s nest, a garden path strewn with scarlet leaves, and lightning bugs. Why, sometimes, it seems as if he’s seem’ things through the eyes of Annie and our baby son.

Philip says he’s learned more from the children ‘bout the pleasure of nature — than the other way round. Creek beds and apple orchards are all places where wonder begins.

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