Stephanie Mittman by A Heart Full of Miracles

Author:A Heart Full of Miracles
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

SETH MADE HIS DAILY TREK TO THE POST OFFICE just after three. On his way, he walked past the site of the new church and saw another fresh load of supplies lying in wait for Saturday, when the plans would arrive and the building would start in earnest. Two men were covering the bundles with tarps, and when he looked up, he saw the sky had darkened with heavy clouds.

Over the last few days, several farmers had cleared all the debris from the building site, evened it out, made it ready for the framing to start. It had taken him a while to realize it, but it wasn’t Joseph Panner’s money that had really gotten the church going. It was the fervent wishes of the townsfolk. His father used to tell him, when he was a small boy, that if he wanted something badly enough, if he wanted it long enough and hard enough, he could make it come to pass.

A part of him had believed it long after his father was gone, when he’d sat beside Sarrie’s bed, grateful that she’d been given another day, and he’d wished and wanted and prayed with all his might that she would be spared.

He decided to make a short detour and turned toward where the old church had stood, the cemetery on the rise behind its ashes. It was past time to visit Sarrie, and today he felt he could do it.

“Oh, Sarrie! You should have seen the look on Abby’s face when she saw that pick and shovel,” he told his sister, standing over her grave with a half smile on his face. “And the tandem bicycle. Well, I don’t know what I thought when I saw it, except that it seemed youthful and fun and all the things that Abby is, and so I bought it.

“I took it out back and tried to ride the crazy contraption for the better part of an hour.” He raised his pant leg and looked at the ugly black-and-blue mark on his shin. “Seems I have a lot to learn about being young that I missed the first time around.

“You were right about Abby, Sarrie. She is life itself. I only hope …” He wanted to say that he hoped he wouldn’t destroy that, but the words wouldn’t pass his lips. Some things were better left unsaid, he supposed, and he took a pebble from the ground and put it on the lower edge of Sarrie’s headstone to show that someone had been there, someone had cared.

And then he headed for the post office. He’d heard precious little in the way of interest from the doctors he’d written to, and he wondered if he had been just a little too honest in his portrayal of Eden’s Grove, and a little too stringent about the requirements for the doctor to whom he would entrust the care of all the people who depended upon him. So many babies he’d brought into the world, so many bones

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