The Story Jar by Robin Lee Hatcher

Author:Robin Lee Hatcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781598567267
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 2011-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Theia hadn’t been able to get back into her own kitchen all afternoon.

Kate, Heidi, and Jaycee had made quick work of cleaning up and filling the dishwasher. Others had served coffee and wrapped up the leftovers and left plates out with treats for everyone to nibble while they watched football. Theia had even taken a nap.

It wasn’t until almost dusk, after everyone had gone home and she went in to make a pot of tea, that she found the package wrapped in ancient tissue paper and tied with twine.

“What’s this?” she asked anyone within earshot.

“Something your dad brought over when he came in this morning. I don’t know.”

She untied the string, tore open the paper.

When she recognized it, her hands started to tremble. She couldn’t swallow past the lump in her throat.

“Joe, this is my mother’s Bible.”

“How can that be?”

“I don’t know. Dad must have found it somewhere.”

Theia set her teacup down in the precise center of the saucer. She lifted the large, worn leather book from its wrappings, and the pages fell open. Pencil notes, gleaned from Edna’s favorite sermons and studies, lined the margins. In almost every chapter, verses had been underlined, and some of them even dated.

“All of her notes are here. All of the things she was learning when she—”

Joe came up behind her and captured her shoulders. “—when she got cancer?”

Theia nodded. “And before.”

Her hands drifted to the brittle yellowed pages, fingering them as if they were gold. Out the window she could see the light in her father’s greenhouse, his dark silhouette stooped over the gardener’s bench.

“I’ve got to talk to him,” she said to Joe.

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