Amish Love Saves All by Rachel Stoltzfus

Author:Rachel Stoltzfus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Amish connection, Amish and Mennonite, Amish romance, Amish romance novels, Amish fiction books, Amish fiction, Christian bestsellers
Publisher: Global Grafx Press
Published: 2017-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Lizzie sighed. “He has gut days and bad. Right now, the bad days outnumber the gut ones. We go to see him one day a week, and he’s trying to understand why it’s not bad for us to be ‘out there,’ working around other people. I was able to make quilts at home, and then sell them on consignment in Annie’s store. That helped us while Wayne was laid up with his arm injury. It also helped that every carpenter here stepped up and helped fill all his orders—and they’re continuing to do so!”

“Lizzie, if you don’t mind, would you reveal just why Wayne is in the Mennonite-Amish mental health hospital?”

“Ya, because I think it’s a lesson to everyone here, whether they are man or woman. My gut husband experienced years of child abuse at the hands of his daed. He witnessed his daed beating his mamm. His mamm escaped, leaving all the youngest kinder with their daed, probably because she sensed he was about to kill her. Once she left, his daed’s only outlet for his anger and abuse was...the kinder. “That’s what he grew up knowing, so I don’t blame him for what he believes. He is working hard to change that, but it will be a while before he can safely come home. The psychiatrist and psychologist have told Leora and me that he suffers from something called PTSD. It means post-traumatic stress disorder. He can be fine one minute, and the next, something will happen around him and it’s as if he’s back in a moment where he’s being abused or hearing his mamm being beaten.

“Ladies, he did beat me. The elders came to talk to him, and for a while he really tried. But, the last time he went backward he was in the market, and he overheard shameless gossip about why Leora and I were not living in our home. And all his fears and those old ghosts came back. That’s when he began planning how he would kill us. He completely lost his grip on reality then. I’m not making any excuses for him. He was wrong, and now he’s paying for that.” Lizzie sat down, her heart pounding.

The room was so quiet that a mouse could have twittered and it would have sounded loud. Linda Yoder stood and approached the front of the room. “Lizzie, denki for telling us such a hard story. I do have one question that everyone here should know the answer to, so they can put Wayne’s situation into perspective. Why was his daed so abusive of his mamm?”

Again, the silence descended into the room. Andy felt it and his gaze centered on Lizzie, who stood once again.

“I understand this only secondhand from Wayne. His daed came from a very conservative Amish sect and believed that no woman should get the opportunity to earn money, even by working from home. His wife was desperate to earn what she needed to escape, so with the few extra dollars she had, she bought baking supplies.

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