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    Faith and Trust in Lancaster: The Amish of Lancaster County, #2
    Faith and Trust in Lancaster: The Amish of Lancaster County, #2
    Faith and Trust in Lancaster: The Amish of Lancaster County, #2
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    Faith and Trust in Lancaster: The Amish of Lancaster County, #2

    By Daisy Fields

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    (Part Two of the Amish of Lancaster County serial.)

    Plain Amish Hannah Stoltzfus of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has her hands full! Her youngest daughter is about to go on rumspringa in New York City, her middle daughter has to choose between the two men vying for her hand in marriage, and her son brings home an English girl. What's a mother and wife to do? Turn to God's guidance and her own belief in hope, trust, and love to get her family through, of course.

    But will it be enough?

    Miriam is alone in New York City for the first time, and the temptations of short skirts, and cell phones, and handsome young men are everywhere. One young man in particular catches her fancy, but he is steeped in modern technology and luxury. How can they possibly make a courtship work without her giving up her
    Amish upbringing?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaisy Fields
    Release dateJan 17, 2015
    ISBN9781507028322
    Faith and Trust in Lancaster: The Amish of Lancaster County, #2

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      Faith and Trust in Lancaster - Daisy Fields

      Faith and Trust in Lancaster

      (The Amish of Lancaster County #2)

      By Daisy Fields

      Copyright 2013 Daisy Fields

      All Rights Reserved

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      Hannah Stoltzfus cupped her tea in her hands, breathing in the soothing aroma of steeping flowers. She sipped the hot liquid, letting it drift over her tongue and spill down her throat, warming her from the inside out. It felt like a much-needed hug from a dear friend. After everything she’d gone through over the last few days, God knew she could use a hug.

      She set down the mug and gazed out the window onto the bright green, grassy fields. Dear God, she prayed, how is it that I once thought I knew how to be a good mother, and now I doubt myself every single day? Sometimes . . .

      The thought caught in her mind, but she forced herself to finish. There was no hiding from God, after all. Sometimes I feel like I should not even be a mother.

      The words shocked her, even within the relative privacy of her own head. She loved her children, she did, and she had made a choice to live according to the Ordnung, but she simply couldn’t deny that the world was becoming a place she didn’t really know how to navigate. Her eldest child, Aaron, was mooning after an English girl, her second-eldest, Annie, was betrothed to a good and stable man named Stephen but continued to spend time with fiery-tempered Jacob, and her youngest, Miriam, was enjoying her rumspringa in New York City, trying things so wild and out of alignment with the Plain way of life that it made Hannah shudder just to think about them.

      It was hard not to feel that she’d failed as an authority figure, as a guide, as a mother. Hannah wrapped her arms around herself and soaked in the morning sunshine. One tear, then two, slipped down her face. She impatiently shook her head, but the tears stayed put. Was she ever grateful no one was around to see! Dear God, she continued, I have to confess, I don’t understand why this is happening to me. When I see everyone else’s children, they seem so well-behaved and confident of their place in our community. Why do I have all the black sheep?

      And that, she realized, was the problem. She wasn’t certain any of her children actually wanted to live a Plain life according to the strictures of the Ordnung. That was their choice and their right, of course—Hannah would never force them to do anything against their will—but it stung to think that she had not instilled a deep-rooted love of their way of life in the children she had borne with her own body.

      At that thought, Hannah broke out into racking sobs. Her chest heaved painfully, and she groaned and sniffled.

      Mamm! a shocked voice cried. "Mamm, are you all right? Do I need to call for help?"

      Hannah’s head jerked up, and her weeping cut off mid-sob. No, she told Annie, whose face had gone white with worry. "No, but denki, my girl. She breathed heavily and cast about for an explanation that would not alarm her daughter too much. Nothing came to mind. Finally she said, Just a bit of a stomachache. What brings you here in the middle of the day, anyhow?"

      A stomachache? The skepticism dripped from Annie’s words. But—

      I’m fine, daughter, and I trust you to believe your mother when she speaks. Hannah forced a smile. Every mother misses her child when they’re not around.

      Slowly the color returned to Annie’s face. She nodded, letting her head fall. "Then I have great news for you, Mamm. I came to fetch you, because Miriam is on the telephone right now!"

      Hannah’s hands fluttered in the air as she tried to gather herself. Right now? Annie nodded. But I have bread in the oven, she finished lamely.

      Oh, I’ll watch it, Annie said easily. She gently prodded Hannah toward the door. Go!

      Hannah allowed herself to be ushered out of the house. She blinked in the warm sunshine. The smell of grass and hay filled her lungs, and she inhaled deeply. Now that she was outside, away from Annie, she allowed herself to think of what she had witnessed the other day, the sight that haunted her dreams even now. Annie, her eyes closed, her lips pressing against Jacob King’s lips, smack in the middle of the afternoon, right under a tree where anyone could see. So brazen!

      Hannah had forced them apart, but she wasn’t sure how long she could protect her daughter from herself. Annie gone on rumspringa in New York City, her thoughts full of dreams of

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