Chapter 30
Chapter Thirty
Seth
Hearing the story Ella shared about what the young man Andre had said to her in prison touched my heart.
It just proved my belief that the Lord had a greater plan that sometimes our human minds couldn’t comprehend.
To be honest, I thought it was a blessing for Ella to see that her husband had not only saved that cashier’s life, but had brought a soul to Jesus in the process.
I never got that kind of confirmation. The Lord never told me why Scarlett and our unborn child had to return to him, and sometimes, as believers, we had to be okay not knowing these things.
It was one of my favorite verses. It showed the pure heart of God and His love for His creation.
God wanted to give me hope. He wanted no harm to come to me.
Or Ella. But we lived in a fallen world with humans that were barely human sometimes.
Some were more like animals, and they lived by the flesh, ignoring the call of their spirit and giving in to all of the temptations of this world.
Ella had seemed so quiet and repentant on the way home.
She said she needed to pray, and I knew she was finally going to go back to God and have it out.
She’d slammed the door in His face when her husband died, and all it had brought her was more pain.
I’d prayed every night since then that she would return to the Lord, so now, I bowed my head in my truck right by the side of the road and prayed again.
“Lord, I’ve prayed that Ella would return to You, and now I pray that, when she does, You welcome her back. That You flood her heart with the healing and love that she needs and that You would comfort her. In Jesus’ name, I ask this of You. Amen.”
When I raised my head, I peered back at Ella’s car to see that she was already pulling out onto the road.
Something ached in my chest, and I had a hard time placing what it was for a second. Then I realized.
I missed her. Ella. When she was away, I missed her company, her friendship, her laugh, and even her sass. I even missed that silly diaper chicken, Honey.
Driving back to my empty house felt lonely, but I had faith in my God and in His promise to restore what had been taken from me, and I was clinging to that with everything I had.