“Like the song, it both offended and mesmerized her. All of this, foreign to anything she’d ever heard at church or experienced in life, sounded too fantastic to be real, yet these people truly believed it. More, they seemed to be, however imperfectly, living it. Davis had certainly given his late wife sacrificial love even when she did not reciprocate. Arilee’s respect for Adam and his devotion to her were bolstering them through the pain of their infertility.”