Wind-Borne Sister

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Melinda Holland. Wind-Borne Sister

Wind-Borne Sister

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Melinda Holland

to beloved friends, teachers, and family members

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I take a deep breath. It is time to follow the trail to the house. Please, Lord Jesus, protect me. You showed me this house; help it to be a place for the night at least, if not something more. Peace to you, peace to you . . . My oars rest silent in their locks, at the shore, yet I hear that promise repeated, and in its echo I step forward.

The hike to the house is easy after the damaged path below. On the borders are the last of the summer’s wildflowers, flashes of color in the shadowed corners. My footsteps sound terribly loud to me, not knowing who might be living and waiting above. Finally the path opens upon a flat, rocky space, with the house on one side. An old woman has taken tentative steps from her porch, a cane in her hand.

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