The Nanny's Amish Family (Redemption's Amish Legacies Book 1) by Patricia Johns

Author:Patricia Johns [Johns, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Denominations & Sects, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Amish Christianity, Pennsylvania Dutch, Traditional, Clean Romance, Farming & Animals, Simple Living, Plain Clothes, Mennonite, Buggy Travel, Amish Country, Amish Courting, Old Fashion Ways, Hearts Desire, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Redemption's Amish Legacies Series, Family & Domestic Life-Young Child-Daughter
Publisher: Love Inspired; Original Edition
Published: 2020-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

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The creek was set back from the road a little way, shaded by spreading trees. Patience could feel all tension seeping out of her at the tranquil scene—grass rippling in a warm breeze, lush trees, the babble of water that she couldn’t yet see, although she knew the land well enough to know that the line of trees would be along its banks. A swarm of sparrows flapped up like a sheet in the wind farther on down the stream, billowed, then settled again in the trees. Thomas tied up the horses with a long enough line to let them graze, and he carried the basket as well as a worn blanket down toward the water with Rue dancing along ahead of them.

Patience had been thinking about that tender moment between them at the lilac bushes all evening, and she’d prayed earnestly that God would simply take away whatever it was that seemed to be brewing between them. She prayed for God to provide for Thomas and Rue—to give them the mamm in their family that they needed. She knew that wouldn’t be her, and while the prayer did stick in her throat just a little, she prayed that Thomas’s wife would capture his heart and they’d love each other well.

It was the kind of prayer that a good woman prayed—at least, that’s what she thought. A good woman should be able to pray a thankful prayer for other people’s blessings, but she still found that it hurt to pray it. Maybe it was some selfish, sinful corner of her heart that wished he could stay single, too, and they’d remain close friends, and she wouldn’t have to watch him move on with another woman.

But out here by a babbling creek, the wind ruffling her dress and Rue laughing at the sheer freedom of the morning, she had to silently pray for strength. It would be too easy to fall for this man, and there would be no benefit in it. She wasn’t the wife for him.

“So you used to play here?” Patience said in English.

“Yah. My mamm would pack me and Noah a lunch and send us off on her floor-washing days. She always said we got in the way more than we helped, so we’d carry our lunch down here and we’d play for hours until our food was gone and we were good and hungry again. I used to use a rope and put it over a branch and we’d swing over the water.”

Patience could almost see them—two sun-browned boys whooping and playing.

“Were there only two of you in the family?” Patience asked. It was a noticeably small family for the Amish.

“Yah.” Thomas frowned. “I asked my mamm if she’d have more babies, and she always said that Gott was the one who gave kinner, and that I should take it up with Him. I never got more explanation than that.”

Patience could understand that kind of answer. She had a similar one, herself, except she wouldn’t have the pleasure of having even one child of her own.

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