Beloved Enemy, The (House of Winslow Book #30) by Gilbert Morris

Author:Gilbert Morris [Morris, Gilbert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: FIC026000
ISBN: 9781441260055
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2006-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

A House Filled With Love

Kefira found a special pleasure in helping Hannah, Missouri Ann, and Jenny. She had risen early on Saturday morning and all day long felt strong enough to work around the house. Actually there was plenty of work to do, for as she had discovered, the nearly hundred-year-old house had been allowed to run down considerably before the Winslows moved in and started fixing it up. She learned that it had been the girlhood home of Lewis’s first wife, and almost every day someone managed to speak of how grateful they were to have had such a refuge when the Wall Street crash took away all their resources.

Kefira was both intrigued and troubled by the casual yet fervent way Missouri Ann and the other family members spoke of Jesus. She had been raised among people who despised Jesus Christ, so much that some of them simply refused to say the name. The best friend of her father had turned crimson when he spoke of the Christian faith and insisted on calling Jesus “that man.” Such feelings had been common enough in New York among the Jewish community, and Kefira had absorbed it along with other cultural biases. Now, however, she saw that the Winslow house was filled with love, and for some reason this troubled her. Before she had come here, it had been easy to dislike Christians, but how could she dislike these people who laughed and obviously enjoyed life and had taken her in almost as a family member?

Perhaps her relationship with Kat had something to do with Kefira’s warm feeling for the family. She had never met a youngster more natural or uninhibited. Kat simply said whatever came into her mind so that she was a creature without guile. It was April now and spring had come to the land, bringing the verdant odors of the earth, the loamy smell of the fields, and the warmth that would quicken the seeds Lewis and Clint planted. Kat had lured Kefira out on her expeditions into the woods, and Kefira was amazed at how the girl loved the out-of-doors. Kat seemed to know every footpath through the woods bordering the farm and had taken Kefira to the spots in the river where fish could be pulled out almost at will. There was a naturalness about Kat Winslow that made Kefira wish she herself had some of that same quality. At times she worried about the girl, who seemed to have no idea that there were monsters in the world—dangers and problems that lurked, waiting to destroy the naïve and the innocent. Kat simply moved through the world with wide-open eyes and somehow managed to keep the sweetest spirit Kefira had ever seen.

Kefira was mopping the hall that separated the bedrooms on the second floor when Kat thundered up the stairs. “Kefira, you’ve got to come and see our program at church!”

Kefira was wearing her hair tied up with a bandana to keep it clean, and she straightened up and smiled.

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