How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim

Author:Jolina Petersheim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance, FICTION / Contemporary Women
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Every day, more bombs fell on the city of Kabul, decimating block after block until it sounded like a giant, mythical beast were slowly encroaching on the hospital, causing Chandler to fear he would die in a bombing identical to the one he had survived. So he left. The hospital was overrun with patients, and the nurse didn’t even blink when Chandler said he was checking himself out. For there was no “checkout” procedure. There were no computers to update or forms to fill out. He merely put on the clothes and shoes, which had belonged to another patient.

Chandler didn’t allow himself to think how the hospital had obtained them; he was only grateful the nurse didn’t make him leave in the dirty hospital gown he’d been wearing all week. Plus, the clothes were clean, and the shoes only a half size too small, which didn’t bother him as much as not having socks. Chandler put on this outfit and walked through the doors of the spare cinder-block hospital. Though his olfactory system yearned for fresh air after four months breathing in the odor of waste and decay, he found the scent was not the hospital’s alone.

Chandler had to fight the urge to turn around as he stepped off the broken sidewalk. He had flown into Kabul with his father, his passport, his credit card, his cell phone, and a carefully packed suitcase. Now, he was scarred, weak, and stepping into a war zone with nothing but a dead man’s clothes on his back. His build and dark features helped him blend in. He wasn’t sure if this was a blessing or a curse. A blessing, he supposed, as he walked the street, since anyone overtly foreign would be singled out, and yet it was his nationality that could save him, if he could only reach a city that wasn’t as devastated as the one he was in.

Therefore, Chandler began to walk. He walked east, toward the rising sun, because that felt safer than forcing himself to walk into the darkness. The sun and the moon, he thought, are the same. No matter where he was in the world, no matter how long it would take to get home to his family, the sun that shone on his family was the same sun that shone on him. He just had to follow it; to remain focused, regardless of the pain that accompanied each step.

Chandler Neufeld wondered if this separation was what he deserved.

Far too often, he had escaped to the clinic, where he was confident in his abilities. At home, he got the sense he was doing it all wrong. He gave the girls baths but forgot to rinse the conditioner from their hair so the girls’ bangs looked greasier than before he began; he folded towels, but they weren’t folded in the way the narrow shelves required. He put the food away after Ruth cooked, but he just set the plastic containers in the fridge, not bothering to cover

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