The Lullaby Sky by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503937802
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2016-09-12T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Good mornin’, folks.” The preacher’s big booming voice filled the little white church that morning. “I’m glad to see all the pews comin’ close to being full. It’s a lot easier to preach to a crowd than to one or two folks falling asleep on the back row.”

A few muffled giggles floated above Hannah’s head, but she didn’t hear them. She was too busy trying to make sense of the sparks that sizzled every time her knee or her arm brushed against Travis. There was no avoiding it. He was sitting right beside her, and since she was on the very end of a full pew, there was nowhere to go.

She’d known him since they were babies in the church nursery. They’d gone through thirteen years of school together, and there had never been anything like this. So why now? Besides, the way he sat there so cool and never flinching must mean that he didn’t feel the heat.

“I’m going to read a few passages from the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. Paul was writing to these folks concerning loving one another. It caused me to think of the love that Ruth had for Naomi, when she followed her into a strange land after both of their husbands had died. I think, and this is my opinion only, that there are many ways of marital death. God did not intend for a husband to mistreat his wife or for him to be lord and master over her. When that happens, the husband is killing the marriage as surely as if he shot the wife between the eyes with his deer-huntin’ rifle,” the preacher said.

Without taking his eyes from the pulpit, Travis reached over and nudged Hannah’s shoulder. “He’s preachin’ to Liz this mornin’,” he whispered.

“Ruth followed Naomi into a strange land. That’s where a wife is when she leaves a husband who has not appreciated the fact that his wife should walk beside him and not two steps behind him.”

A few shuffles said that the preacher was stepping on sore toes. Evidently he had some knowledge of other men in the community who weren’t showing their wives the love and respect that they should. Hannah chanced a peek down the pew at Liz. Two high spots of crimson dotted her cheeks, but she was nodding in agreement.

“And in that strange land she will find God and happiness.” The preacher went on with the sermon about love, but Hannah’s mind wandered. Sitting in church should bring quietness to the soul, but that morning all it brought to Hannah was more questions without answers as she sat beside Travis and tried to figure out what this chemistry was that she felt.

After the last amen was said, Miss Rosie announced that dinner was at her house that day, and she wasn’t taking excuses from anyone. As they were filing out of the church, she looped her arm into Hannah’s. “And after dinner you can go over to Liz’s and help her pack,

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