Winter Dreams (Moments In Paradise Book 2) by Melanie Wilber

Author:Melanie Wilber [Wilber, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Cora couldn’t sleep. She’d had such a great week with carefree days away from school and late afternoons and evenings with Jess, she had almost forgotten what stress felt like. She had been trying not to think about the trip all week and focus on her extra time with Amos and her promising relationship with an incredibly decent and respectable man, but with the flight coming up in the morning and the first of eight straight days with her ex-husband and his new wife, she felt like the stupidest woman on the planet.

Jess had told her to call him if she couldn’t sleep, but she knew she should have done so two hours ago, not at one-thirty in the morning. He’d been so sweet all week, never seeming bothered by her actions or words in any way. But calling him in the middle of the night seemed like too much at this point in their relationship.

She did it anyway.

“This better be a beautiful woman calling me at this hour,” he said in a sleepy voice.

“I’m sorry. I can’t sleep.”

“I can. Good night.”

She smiled. “This was your idea.”

“Changed my mind. Have a nice trip, beautiful.”

“I’m not sure that’s possible. Why am I doing this?”

“Because you love Amos, and you’re the most awesome mom ever.”

His words came out sleepy and lazy-sounding, but she knew he was being sincere. She had no idea what he was doing in her life, but at this point she had no reason or desire to stick a note on her door that said, ‘Go away and never come back.’

“What did you think of our time with Pastor Andy today?” he asked.

“It was good. His prayers made me feel better, but right now--I don’t know. I guess it’s easier to have faith when I’m in church.”

“It’s hard for me to let you go, but something Pastor Andy said stuck with me all evening.”

“What?”

“The part about letting God be our God in this. Right now I could be saying, ‘Okay, when Cora gets back from her trip, and Sierra and I get moved, and Sierra’s competition is over next month, then I’ll start learning to trust God’; but the time is now. If God is who He says He is, then this is the perfect opportunity to let Him show me that. And don’t think for a second that’s an easy thing for me to do, Cora, because I care about you very much.”

“Did you do that with Monique? Leave her in God’s hands?”

He laughed. “Absolutely not. I prayed sometimes, but it was more like, ‘Heal my wife and then I’ll do what you say, God.’ But it was never about trusting Him with her life or her death. I did everything I could to take care of her except that.”

“Do you trust Him now? I mean, do you believe she’s in Heaven and she’s okay?”

“Yes.”

“Have you believed that all along?”

“In my head I told myself I did, but I haven’t been living like it until now.”

“Why now?”

“I’ve been living in despair and hopelessness for four years.

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