Status Updates From Peace Like a River

Oh boy, I feel another favourite book coming. Leif Enger, you have a gentle way with words that leaves me anticipating a(nother) stricken heart.

“How could we not believe the Lord would guide us? How could we not have faith? For the foundation had been laid in prayer and sorrow. Since that fearful night, Dad had responded with the almost impossible work of belief. He had burned with repentance as though his own hand had fired the gun. He had laid up prayer as if with trowel. You know this is true and if you don’t it is I the witness who am to blame.”