Truly Yours Contemporary Collection December 2014 by Joyce Livingston Gail Sattler Joyce Livingston & Lauralee Bliss

Author:Joyce Livingston, Gail Sattler, Joyce Livingston & Lauralee Bliss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

sixteen

“Merry Christmas, Neil!”

“Merry Christmas, Phil!”

Phil and Neil patted each other on the shoulders, then went their separate ways to get ready for church. Since Neil had the shower first, Phillip went into the living room and plugged in the lights for the Christmas tree while he waited for his turn.

Almost reverently, he looked up at the tree and smiled as Dale looked back down at him. At least Phillip thought Dale was looking down.

It was almost like he’d come to know the little angel on a personal basis, he’d done so much with him.

With the utmost care, Phillip plucked Dale from the top branch and brought him down.

It had seemed like so long ago that he’d first brought Dale home. That day had been the start of the best time of his life, and the worst—the start of when he got to know Grace.

He turned Dale over in his hand, studying the perfect stitches and the perfect uniformity of the shaping, which wouldn’t have been possible without Grace.

Grace. He didn’t know exactly when he’d fallen in love with her, but the time since he’d been able to admit it to himself had been the most frustrating of his life.

He wanted to marry Grace, but he didn’t think she wanted to marry him. When he made his decision, he’d promised God that he would wait until the right time to propose, but that time had not come. Instead, he’d used almost all of his inner strength to do nothing except build their friendship as slowly as he could, if seeing her every day could be called slow, especially after Neil told him the other Sunday that he was no longer officially seeing Grace.

Phil had never prayed so much or so long in his life, but that was never a bad thing. He wanted God’s grace and blessing on his marriage, and he therefore would follow God’s guidelines.

He’d talked to Grace about marriage in general a few times without actually proposing, and it was a good thing he hadn’t. During those times he’d learned that she had some kind of problem with the structure of her family, something to do with her father. Because of that, Grace was too frightened to take that big step into marriage, which was why she had connected with Neil. Neil didn’t want to get married either. In that regard, the two of them would have been a perfect match.

Except, Phillip knew Neil wasn’t the match for Grace. He was. But, above all, Phillip wanted Grace to be happy, even if that meant a sacrifice for him. He loved her so much that he knew he would never be able to marry anyone else.

Again, he studied Dale. The angel truly had become more than a Christmas ornament. Dale really had become his guardian angel. It was because of Dale that he’d come to know Grace. For that reason alone, Phillip had become quite fond of the little angel, and he knew that Grace had become quite fond of Dale, too.

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