Saving Gideon
“It was a beautiful day, the kind only found in the wild month of May. The sky was impossibly blue, the birds chirped from the tops of trees covered in new foliage. Across the pasture, the newborn lambs called out to their mothers in soft bleating sighs. Everything was perfect.
He surveyed the land and felt a satisfaction he had never felt before. Not a prideful feeling. No, that wasn’t proper. But a sense of peace and well-being that he hadn’t felt in some time. He stroked his beard and smiled. All was right with the world. He had it all: a beautiful family, a profitable farm, and a God who saw fit to bless them all. It seemed to take him half the day to count his blessings. Even for that he was grateful.
As quickly as those thoughts flitted in and out of his head, the sky turned to an angry gray. Storm rolling in—and Green Country storms were nothing to scoff at. He needed to get the animals to safety before the worst of it hit.
He looked around, that presence of peace es...caping him.MoreLess
He surveyed the land and felt a satisfaction he had never felt before. Not a prideful feeling. No, that wasn’t proper. But a sense of peace and well-being that he hadn’t felt in some time. He stroked his beard and smiled. All was right with the world. He had it all: a beautiful family, a profitable farm, and a God who saw fit to bless them all. It seemed to take him half the day to count his blessings. Even for that he was grateful.
As quickly as those thoughts flitted in and out of his head, the sky turned to an angry gray. Storm rolling in—and Green Country storms were nothing to scoff at. He needed to get the animals to safety before the worst of it hit.
He looked around, that presence of peace es...caping him.MoreLess
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