Saturday Snippet: Yet, One Chinese Woman

 

 

The following snippet is taken from my upcoming book, 

Gift of Restitution: A Story for Christmas 

Gold Mountain, Book 4

 

            Feeling Caldwell grow restless beneath him, Luke slowly exhaled. It was time to return to the livery—a place he hoped to soon leave behind him. By the time he returned home, he would be gone slightly over a month. He hoped, in his absence, Pastor and Mrs. Campbell visited to answer Joy’s questions. He wondered if they or his mother already read to Joy the part of the Christmas story she held so dearly in her heart. If not, after he arrived home, he would read it to her. I need to teach Joy to read in English. Perhaps this winter.

            Luke pondered over the extent Joy’s love of the Jesus stories changed how they spent their evenings. His mother had been baptized Catholic, but, as an adult, had not attended church. After she married his father who came from a Presbyterian background, they attended his church—when they went. Once David McDaniels died, and the white community of Duluth slowly turned their backs on her, Odette gathered up her little family and fled to the reservation. There she attached herself to her mother’s band. She became more comfortable with the centuries-old midewikwe beliefs of the Ojibwa than she did with the so-called Christianity of white Americans—a religion so many of them did not practice. Yet, one Chinese woman—someone most Americans considered a heathen—reintroduced a study of the teachings of Jesus to his family.

You may find the book description and preorder link for Gift of Restitution: a Story for Christmas by CLICKING HERE. 

 

 

I have a second Christmas book I will be offering this year. It is titled 

A Shopkeeper for Christmas. 

Here is the cover. For the book description and preorder link, please CLICK HERE.