Free Christian Romance: Heaven on Earth... [4 Beautiful Christian Romance Stories] by Joanne Sawyer Page B

too. She wanted
Lucy to know love, the kind of bliss one could only experience with
a partner who loved you in return and knew you well because they
seemed to speak to your very soul.
    Beside Helena, her husband was
beginning to tear up. She reached for his hand, knowing he was
utterly reluctant to address the issue. But in the end, Rick
bravely said, “We’ll leave it to Lucy, shall we? Whatever she
decides, that’s what we want too.”
    “Well, darling?” prodded Helena,
barely managing to hold her excitement.
    “Do you accept our son’s court?” Noah
said, eyes crinkling warmly at the sides as he waited for Lucy’s
answer.
    “Oh, sweetie, say yes ,” Margaret
interjected, deeply in suspense.
    With the most beautiful smile anyone
who knew her had ever seen on her face, Lucy locked gazes with
Charles and said clearly for everyone to hear: “Yes. I
do.”

Epilogue

    “You’re kidding,” the teenage boy
said. Beside her, the older teenage girl rolled her eyes and
pretended boredom, but there was no mistaking the wistfulness in
her eyes. Their adolescent youngest sister was more honest in her
reaction. She sighed and alternated adoring gazes at her parents,
who were seated at the other side of the table. “That’s really how
you guys first became a couple? And at this restaurant?”
    The boy punctuated that question by
looking around dubiously at the large room, with its high ceiling
and ornate gold cornices. The attractive middle-aged couple
followed suit, but with fondness and humor, each remembering the
events of that day as they told it to their children.
    “Don’t be stupid,” said their eldest
to her brother. “Of course they edited and condensed it and made it
all sound pretty.”
    “Hmm, well yes, we did,” Lucy replied,
smiling. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t all true. Besides, we could
hardly tell you all the details.” She laughed and her husband
joined in.
    As they looked at each other’s eyes,
all their shared history passed between them, and they were
thankful to the Lord and grateful that they were never in twenty
years disappointed in one another. All that promise they felt when
they’d just met was still being fulfilled.
    “So then,” said Charles,
briskly addressing their children. “We told you we could tell this
story in under an hour and we have. Guess that means we won, right?
We get to pick the desert and where we would go after this.”
    Another rolled eyes from their
teenaged girl, a “whatever” from their boy, and a serious,
enthusiastic “Yes!” from their youngest was what they got for an
answer. Lucy reached out to pat her youngest’s head as she turned
towards her husband.
    “You are a terrible parent,” she told
him, punctuating that with a kiss.
    “Hey, I’m not the one who keeps
bringing them to our parents’ homes. What do you think they would
end up doing with this lot except ruin them for us?”
    “Actually, I was hoping for them to
take the kids on a camping trip.”
    Dissolving in a fit of giggles, the
married couple who was more in love with each other than ever drew
long-suffering sighs from their older off-springs and another
wistful one from the younger. All was perfect in the world God
Himself had planned for them...

Giving The Best Of Me...
     
     
    Joanne Sawyer

Introduction

    Sometimes life leaves you devastated,
but God will always have a plan for you. Karen has her life turned
upside down when her six year relationship ends suddenly, but God
has a different life set out for her. She meets Gage in a remote
village she volunteers to practice medicine in and sparks fly, but
Gage is keeping his distance, can Karen eventually
breakthrough?

Finding Karen...

    Karen Johnston was on her way home at
1o:00 am after a grueling day. She was at the end of her one-year
internship in Our Lady of Mercy Public Hospital and tomorrow, she
will finally start her residency. It was cause for celebration but
she just didn’t have the time or energy for