A Test of Faith (2010)
“WILLIAM CONGREVE IT WAS A GOOD DAY.
Laughter floated on the breeze, and the sound was music to Jared’s ears.
He sat, perched on a large boulder, and watched as his wife and daughter scrambled over the trails and rocks a few yards away. Even from a distance, the exultation in Anne’s tone was evident.
She loved coming here, to the Oregon coast. It was the one place lately that seemed to stir the child within her to life. She’d been struggling so with fatigue, with discouragement over her weight a...nd health, that Jared had grown concerned. Last week had been the worst. Anne had finally gone to see her diabetes specialist to find out why she was having so much more trouble than she used to have. Jared hoped she’d come home with a game plan for feeling better.
Instead, she’d come home in tears.
The doctor offered no hope, she said. Just the same old rant: eat less, exercise more, lose weight.
“He says it like it’s so easy!” She flopped onto the couch. “Well, I’d like to see him lose weight simply by deciding to do so.”MoreLess
Laughter floated on the breeze, and the sound was music to Jared’s ears.
He sat, perched on a large boulder, and watched as his wife and daughter scrambled over the trails and rocks a few yards away. Even from a distance, the exultation in Anne’s tone was evident.
She loved coming here, to the Oregon coast. It was the one place lately that seemed to stir the child within her to life. She’d been struggling so with fatigue, with discouragement over her weight a...nd health, that Jared had grown concerned. Last week had been the worst. Anne had finally gone to see her diabetes specialist to find out why she was having so much more trouble than she used to have. Jared hoped she’d come home with a game plan for feeling better.
Instead, she’d come home in tears.
The doctor offered no hope, she said. Just the same old rant: eat less, exercise more, lose weight.
“He says it like it’s so easy!” She flopped onto the couch. “Well, I’d like to see him lose weight simply by deciding to do so.”MoreLess
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