Return to Paradise by Cameron Barbara;

Author:Cameron, Barbara;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2016-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

12

Lavina hated running late.

She almost never ran late. As the oldest, she’d often had to help her mother get her schweschders ready for church and for schul, so she was used to getting up early and being on time.

Not today. She’d set her alarm, and it hadn’t gone off so she’d overslept. In a rush to get ready to leave the house, she’d stubbed her toe on the foot of her bed, so she’d been a boppli and had to sit down and cry from the pain for a few minutes.

Then she was so distracted she managed to stick herself in the side as she inserted a straight pin at the waist of her dress. That led to having to find a bandage. Then, when she tried to rush through breakfast, she’d burned her mouth on her oatmeal.

It just isn’t my day, she thought, then chided herself. It was the day God had given her, and it wasn’t like her to not be grateful.

Since she was running late she decided to take the box of completed quilt orders by Leah’s shop after the class. Before she went into the shelter she threw the buggy blanket over the box on the back seat and hurried inside.

“I’m so sorry,” she told Kate when she rushed into the room.

“Relax, you’re helping us,” Kate said. “You’re not punching in at work. Sit down and catch your breath.”

So she watched Kate work on a new project, one made of the fabric the Englisch called camouflage. “I was working on quilts for friends of my husband who are still in the military. Usually they like patriotic themes and colors. But then one day one of them wrote my husband and said they can’t take them into the field because they have to pack them in their knapsack, and it makes it hard to carry with everything they need.”

Kate held up the half-sewn quilt. “But they can roll these up and tie them on the outside of the knapsack with some fabric strips I’ll sew on, and they’ll blend in with the rest of their uniform.”

She resumed sewing. “A quilt gives them the feeling someone back home cares, and it keeps them warm on a cold night.” She glanced up to see if anyone needed them to help and focused again on her work. “Did Jenny Bontrager ever tell you how she came to live here?”

“I don’t know all the details.” Jenny was a member of their church—she hadn’t been born Amish, although her father had been Amish and he’d chosen not to join the church.

“Jenny was a television reporter who did stories overseas about children living in war zones. She was hurt in a bombing and flown back to the States.” She paused to make a knot and then rethread her needle. “Her grandmother, Phoebe King, sent a quilt to her hospital room and told her to come recuperate here. So Jenny came back and met Matthew Bontrager, the boy next door to Phoebe, and now they live ‘happily ever after.

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