Their Inheritance eBook:
Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old James and sixteen-year-old Alexandra Williams are devastated. It is the winter of 1889 and their Father and Mother have suddenly passed away. While grieving, the brother and sister must find some way to raise their younger siblings, manage the family farm, mourn, and still find their own path through life. It does not take long before James and Alexandra are overwrought in their efforts to raise Christine and Lee along with struggling to continue to mature themselves. Through heartaches, hardships, trials, and triumphs, the siblings attempt to face their inheritance and all its challenges by relying on their personal faith, using the values taught to them by their parents, trying to adhere to the structure of their daily life, and with guidance from scripture.
Seventeen-year-old James and sixteen-year-old Alexandra Williams are devastated. It is the winter of 1889 and their Father and Mother have suddenly passed away. While grieving, the brother and sister must find some way to raise their younger siblings, manage the family farm, mourn, and still find their own path through life. It does not take long before James and Alexandra are overwrought in their efforts to raise Christine and Lee along with struggling to continue to mature themselves. Through heartaches, hardships, trials, and triumphs, the siblings attempt to face their inheritance and all its challenges by relying on their personal faith, using the values taught to them by their parents, trying to adhere to the structure of their daily life, and with guidance from scripture.
Their Inheritance excerpt:
The sun shone across the frosty air. The icy wind of February cut into her almost as sharp as the pain that ran through her veins. Alexandra ached from the cold, yet she could not make herself move from that spot. Her eyes fixed on the rectangular hole and the pine box covered with pine boughs as everyone else walked back to the house. She could faintly hear the murmuring, the sniffling, and Lee’s crying.
A deep overwhelming sob lodged in her throat and stifled her as she thought of six year old Lee and eight year old Christine, her brother and sister. How could she and James, her seventeen year old brother, take care of them. First it was Pa, then not a fortnight later Ma. Oh, Ma! As they lowered Ma into her grave, Alexandra felt a scream… a wail from the very pit of her soul rising to her throat! As hard as she willed herself not to cry, there they were. Tears. Such a rush of tears down her face that they poured upon her breast! ‘Shame, Alexandra!’ she thought, ‘What would Ma think? I must bear up for the children’s sakes.’ Inside she wanted to take off across the field, through the forest, and run until she fell off the end of the earth! But, on the outside, she pulled out Pa’s handkerchief from her coat pocket, wiped her face, blew her nose, and closed her eyes.
“Forgive me, Lord. Make me strong and guide me. I don’t understand, but Ma always said you don’t give us more than we can handle. I hope I don’t disappoint you. Be patient with me. I promise to try harder to be courageous. Amen,” she whispered.
As the men threw the last shovel of dirt upon Ma, Alexandra whispered, “Goodbye, Ma. I love you.” With that, she turned and walked towards the house.
A deep overwhelming sob lodged in her throat and stifled her as she thought of six year old Lee and eight year old Christine, her brother and sister. How could she and James, her seventeen year old brother, take care of them. First it was Pa, then not a fortnight later Ma. Oh, Ma! As they lowered Ma into her grave, Alexandra felt a scream… a wail from the very pit of her soul rising to her throat! As hard as she willed herself not to cry, there they were. Tears. Such a rush of tears down her face that they poured upon her breast! ‘Shame, Alexandra!’ she thought, ‘What would Ma think? I must bear up for the children’s sakes.’ Inside she wanted to take off across the field, through the forest, and run until she fell off the end of the earth! But, on the outside, she pulled out Pa’s handkerchief from her coat pocket, wiped her face, blew her nose, and closed her eyes.
“Forgive me, Lord. Make me strong and guide me. I don’t understand, but Ma always said you don’t give us more than we can handle. I hope I don’t disappoint you. Be patient with me. I promise to try harder to be courageous. Amen,” she whispered.
As the men threw the last shovel of dirt upon Ma, Alexandra whispered, “Goodbye, Ma. I love you.” With that, she turned and walked towards the house.
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