Amish Faith: An Amish Christian Romance by Price Sarah

Author:Price, Sarah [Price, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Price Publishing
Published: 2013-04-22T14:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“I just don’t understand,” her mother said, sitting down at the kitchen table. Her face was pale and her eyes wide in complete disbelief at what her only child had just announced. “Why are you doing this? Do you love him?”

Her father scoffed and stood up, pacing the floor. “Love?” he said sharply to his wife. “How could she love him? She doesn’t even know him!”

Faith stood before her parents, her hands folded behind her back. She didn’t know how to respond. They had reacted exactly as she had expected: shocked and confused.

Faith lifted her chin and summoned the strength to answer her mother. “No, I don’t.”

Her father shook his head. “See?”

“But I could,” Faith said slowly.

“Oh Faith,” her mother said, tears starting to form in her eyes. “And to become baptized as an Amish woman? Do you know what that means?”

She nodded her head, understanding only too well what it meant. “Yes, I do. I’ve met with the bishop.”

“This is ridiculous,” her father snapped. “I forbid you to do this!”

“John,” her mother interfered softly, trying to calm her husband down.

Faith looked at her father, meeting his angry gaze. She had known that her parents would not react favorably but she also knew what she had to do. God had led her to this and she was going to do His will. “Dad, it’s not ridiculous. You have to have faith in me…faith that I know what I’m doing.”

“What about your job? Your career?”

She smiled softly. “I think raising six children is just as worthy a vocation, don’t you?” Although it hadn’t been Faith’s intention, she realized the double meaning behind her own words. Had not her own mother wished for more children to do exactly what Faith was now doing? Staying home to raise a family full of life and love?

Recognizing the pained look on his wife’s face, her father exhaled and tried to comfort her by reaching out to touch her shoulder, a gesture of understanding and support. Lifting his eyes to stare at his daughter, he sighed. “You’ve made up your mind, haven’t you?” When she nodded her head slowly, her father placed his hand on his forehead as though he had a headache. Indeed, Faith wondered if her announcement pained him that much. “Truly, we cannot talk you out of this?”

She shook her head.

Her mother fought back her tears, her fingers pulling at the edges of the tissue in her hand. “I had hoped for something more for you, Faith,” she said slowly. “A marriage of love, not convenience.”

“Convenience for him!” her father snapped.

“Dad,” Faith started. “It was my idea, not his. I won’t have you thinking poorly of Manuel.” She paused before she added, “Remember that he saved my life once. Now it is my turn to save his.”

She spent the rest of the morning gathering the few things that she needed, things that she hadn’t already packed when she had moved into Manuel’s house to take care of the children while he was sick.

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