Chapter 31: To Every Thing
There Is a Season
Summer is a lovely time of year in Apple Creek. Long, languid days are followed by clear, warm evenings. The night sky is brilliant with stars. The fields and orchards around the village are bursting with life. And for Reuben and Jerusha, even after all the summers they had experienced in Apple Creek, the summer of 1944 held a special splendor.
A great part of their happiness was focused on the child growing within Jerusha, and even more, God seemed to reach down from His throne and mark each day with an overpowering sense of wonder and destiny. The war raged on in the Pacific and Europe, but it didn’t seem to touch Apple Creek. Instead, peace and joy filled the village.
Reuben spent most of his time in the fields, cultivating the potatoes
