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    A Month of Sundays
    A Month of Sundays
    A Month of Sundays
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    A Month of Sundays

    By Charlene Bays Rothenberger

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    On Sunday morning when you should be listening to the message, what thoughts are running through your head? Visit a small town in the North Carolina hills and share th interaction of the parishioners with each other, the minister, and the minister's wife.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharlene Bays Rothenberger
    Release dateAug 25, 2010
    ISBN9781452321035
    A Month of Sundays
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    Charlene Bays Rothenberger

    Charlene Bays Rothenberger authored two inspirational novels, A Month of Sundays, and One of The Nine (to be released in May) as well as four children books. Each story is a life lesson with a moral intended to help children as they grow. The titles are Kara's Kapers with Katypillar in three volumes of three stories each, and Grannie's Bedtime Stories. She passed away in January 2013, leaving us her works.

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      A Month of Sundays - Charlene Bays Rothenberger

      CHAPTER ONE

      Betty Jean

      Betty Jean hurried to finish the last minute touches to her hair and makeup. "As the wife of the minister, I have an image to maintain. I know that I’m expected to be as near perfect as possible. And so far, I’ve fooled most of the parishioners and they think I am ‘as near perfect as possible’. I try to do my very best. I lead the worship committee, teach the high school girls Sunday school class, I am head of the woman's missionary society and I try to do it all with a certain amount of style and grace, but not too graceful or stylish because I don’t want to appear pretentious. Oh my, it is a fine line to walk, but so far I’ve been able to accomplish everything without falling off that line. If I can become more perfect at being a country minister’s wife, God must give it to me.

      I dearly love Bill. He has been my husband for ten astonishing years, he’s so tall and handsome and fine. He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. I want nothing more than to be a good wife and mother; I think I’m doing a first-class job on the wife part, but we’ve been trying for the past five years to have a baby, and so far no luck.

      God! Why haven’t I been able to conceive? We want a baby so very much, a little part of each of us, the amazing beginning of our own unique family. Please grant us this one wish. I know that you answer prayers in your own time and way. Maybe you have answered and I have refused to listen.

      It would be so nice to have a little boy that looks just like Bill. A child would be a wonderful gift from you God. I recognize a child would also be a challenge. Oh, I know I have all these romantic notions about a family just like the families Bill and I grew up in. I understand, believe me Lord, I know it isn’t easy and there are always problems of one sort or another.

      Oh but right now, I’d better stop woolgathering. I must hurry and finish getting ready or I will mess up the wife part by being late for church."

      After checking her New England boiled dinner in the crock-pot to make sure the roast would be ready after services, Betty Jean opened the kitchen door of the parsonage and hurried across the old graveyard. She was very careful not to trip on the exposed roots of the ancient oak trees. I’m a few days late this month, Betty Jean thought . Perhaps this might be the time so I don’t want to chance a fall. Bill would be so happy if I could tell him we are, after five frustrating years, having a little one.

      Betty Jean slipped into the side door of the chapel as the last few notes of the old hymn floated from the church steeple on its way up to heaven. She crossed the back of the church, went to the outside aisle of the pews on the right side and tiptoed quietly toward her regular seat near the front of the church. She slid onto the padded bench just as the choir began their processional down the center walkway to the choir loft.

      Bill was already in his place behind the pulpit. He looked so handsome in his clerical robes; he still made her heart skip a beat. Just as he did the very first time she saw him. They were freshmen in high school and even now, he could still make her feel like that gawky young woman.

      He looked at

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