Where Truth Lies by Lynn Bulock

Author:Lynn Bulock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Miranda led Greg back to her grandfather’s suite. This time the door was firmly shut as she expected it should be. That eased her mind a little, because it promised that Peg had put things in order again. She knocked and, after a moment, Peg came to the door. “Do come in, Miranda. I think he’s much calmer now.”

Peg motioned to the high-backed chair that was Howard’s favorite. He sat there, looking considerably less upset than he had earlier with Alannah in the room. “Miranda’s back and she brought that nice young man with her.” She took Howard’s hand and Miranda was struck once more by how good Peg was with the older man. “Howard, this is Reverend Brown. He’s the new pastor at Unity where Winnie goes to church.”

“Good to meet you, young fellow. The way you backed Miranda up back there I thought you might be part of the security staff.”

“No, just coming to make a call on you, actually. I thought you might want a chance to hear the Good News and perhaps have me pray with you.” Gregory took Howard’s hand and shook it gently, then sat in the chair closest to him to put Miranda’s grandfather at ease.

Miranda marveled at how quickly he connected with Howard. Given that her grandfather was notoriously hard to make friends with at this time of his life, the visit really played up Greg’s talent.

Howard gave a dry laugh that almost turned into a wheeze. Peg hovered over him and he waved her away. “I’m all right, Peg. She worries about me like a mother hen,” he said. “And I don’t want your prayers, Reverend Brown. The Good News left this house for me when my Ethel died.”

Miranda felt a twist of sorrow listening to her grandfather. He lived in the past more and more these days, and his past hadn’t been a happy place for a long time.

“I’m sorry you feel that way, sir. I believe that Jesus is always here to walk beside us in our troubles, even the worst of them. Scripture tells us that He is a man of sorrows. There’s no place of pain that we can be in where He hasn’t been there first. No place of joy, either, but that’s a different story,” Greg said.

“That it truly is, and one I’m not nearly as familiar with, I’m afraid.” For a moment Howard looked thoughtful in a way Miranda hadn’t seen in quite some time.

“Why don’t you tell me a little bit about Ethel,” Greg suggested, leaning forward in his chair.

Howard brightened and began to hold forth. Miranda sat quietly and listened to more than she’d ever heard about the grandmother who had died long before she was born.

If her grandfather’s remembrances were right about his wife, Miranda mused about how different all of their lives might have been had she lived. With a woman that strong and loving by his side, would Howard have taken such an instant dislike to Mama? And without

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