A Place Called Eden by R.H. Hull

Author:R.H. Hull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2020-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Rebecca rode home with her brother Tom after her school was over for the day. She felt empty and afraid. She needed someone to talk to, and knew exactly who that was. So, as soon as she arrived at home, she went directly to the kitchen, picked up the telephone receiver and called Sarah. Rebecca told her that she needed to see her as soon as possible. In response, being the good friend she was, all Sarah said was, “Where? Tell me where you want me to meet you?” Rebecca said that Sarah would have to drive the two miles to her house to pick her up since their family car was being used by her mother, and she was not allowed to drive her brother’s pickup truck. Sarah confirmed that would be right over.

Rebecca hung the receiver back on the phone and waited for Sarah. She thought about the issues she would share with Sarah. Sarah always seemed to have good ideas. She seemed to think clearly about problems, and could come up with positive, or at least workable solutions. Plus, she generally offered good advice. So, Rebecca looked forward to explaining the situation in which she had found herself.

In about 10 minutes, Sarah pulled into the long gravel driveway of the Yoder farm and up to the back-yard gate. Rebecca was waiting on the back steps of her house. Her mother was not at home, so Rebecca had left her a note to let her and her father know that she was with Sarah and would be home by 5:30 p.m. When Sarah drove up to where Rebecca was sitting, stopped the car and began to open the door, Rebecca was already opening the passenger side door, and then jumped into the front seat next to Sarah.

“Wow!” Sarah exclaimed, “You are an anxious thing, aren’t you? This must be important!”

“You had better believe it is!” Rebecca replied.

But, as Sarah pulled away from the gate, back down the long driveway and made a right turn down on the gravel road, silence was all that she heard.

Finally, Sarah broke the silence, “Okay, what is it? There must be a problem you need to talk about. Is it still Jacob? Has your father changed his mind, or is there still a problem there?”

Sarah continued to chatter until Rebecca stopped her by suddenly saying with feeling, “Yes, yes, no, and, yes! is the answer to all that you have just said and asked.”

*“Yes, there is a problem I want to talk about. Yes, it is about Jacob. No, my father has definitely not changed his mind. And, yes* there is still a problem!”

“Well,” Sarah inquired, “Have you and Jacob talked?” Rebecca affirmed that they, indeed, had talked, and that the problem is the outcome.

Sarah thought momentarily, and then asked whether the problem was Jacob’s unwillingness to work with her to solve the problem?

“No,” Rebecca said in return rather forcefully. “That is not the problem. Jacob is willing to go beyond all that I imagined that he would!”

“Example?” Sarah asked.

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