Prey for a Miracle by Aimée & David Thurlo

Author:Aimée & David Thurlo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312322106
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur New York

11

SISTER AGATHA SAT ACROSS FROM TOM GREEN’S DESK AT THE sheriff’s office. The door behind her was closed and Pax was outside with other officers.

She’d told him the few bits of information she’d been able to learn from Natalie, and now watched her old friend consider his options. In the last few years, with the additional weight of his responsibilities, he’d become more reserved and cautious. Tom liked things nice and neat—black or white—which was why law enforcement suited him. But this case was filled with too many intangibles and those clearly made him uncomfortable.

“What do you make of the angel?” he asked.

“I believe in angels, but I’m not really sure that what Natalie sees isn’t just a product of her own imagination.”

He gave her a long hard look. “You don’t like this angel thing at all, do you? Reality and fantasy don’t mix—one destroys the other— and that’s what makes you uncomfortable.”

“I don’t know what you mean.”

“Come on. It’s me, Tom Green. I know you. You went into the monastery because you fell in love with the ideal man. As long as He’s not tangible, you’re safe. I’d bet the farm that the last thing you want is to actually see an angel.”

Although there was some truth to what Tom was saying, the bottom line was that he had no idea what a calling really was.

“I felt compelled, for lack of a better word, to go into the religious life. Despite what you think, God is as real to me as the beat of my own heart,” she said. “But what I fell in love with is the gentleness that shimmers through every answered prayer. When there was no one else I could turn to, He gave me peace. The apostle John said it best, ‘We love Him because He first loved us.’”

Sister Agatha shook her head in exasperation. “This is a tough thing to talk about in a way that makes sense to someone else. It’s like asking you to explain why you love your wife or your kids. You can list all the things that draw you to them till you’re blue in the face, but that still doesn’t explain it. Love is much more than just that.”

“Maybe I don’t understand what drives anyone to the religious life, but I’m not wrong about this—something about this angel thing really bothers you.”

“I’m not sure what to make of it. But you’re right about one thing. I don’t want to see Natalie’s angel. A part of that is due to plain, old-fashioned fear. But there’s more to it than that. Not seeing the spiritual means that I live by the words, ‘the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.’ That gives wings to my faith. It challenges me to continually reach upwards and be better. If you see, you don’t need faith, and faith is the only sure gift I bring Him daily along with my love.”

He remained silent for a moment, then said slowly, “I’ve heard of children seeing angels when they’re facing death.

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