Chapter 30When Father Charles left his office to summon Brother Mac, Penny turned to John. She reached for his other hand, so she could hold both tightly. “John? Look at me.” Shaken by her words, he slowly faced his wife. “Do you remember when I told you I had a dream about us changing the world?” He stared into the twinkling eyes and wondered why sometimes, perhaps not as often as in the earlier years, she seemed to be from another planet. What used to be dreams and a wild imagination he thought, could be morphing into dementia.
Under her alien-like spell, he blinked and nodded. What was she doing? His face looked overwhelmed and his slouching posture made him look beaten. As a carpenter, he thought of himself as a simple, uncomplicated man. These types of things were too much for him to
