Two Easters
()
About this ebook
Come to Fort Lauderdale at spring break through this story, as we follow the life of prodigal husband Tom Allison, seeking happiness in South Florida, but eventually being touched by the Lord and returning to his wife, Betty, in Cincinnati.
Read more from Bob Steinkamp
Your Father Knows Best Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prodigal's Perspective Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prodigals Do Come Home Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prodigal Writes From His Heart Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Be Healed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hack Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding The Way Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rejoice On The Rails Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter The Prodigal Returns Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Twelve Days Of... Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMillie's Christmas Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Saved Seat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rejoice On The Road Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLooking Back 25 Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Lover Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDays of Joy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChicagoman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPulpits In The Marketplace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Two Easters
Related ebooks
Will Your Prodigal Come Home? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDays of Joy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChicagoman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter The Prodigal Returns Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Twelve Days Of... Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Lover Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLooking Back 25 Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spiritual Journey Toward A Healed Marriage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding The Way Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to stand for a Marriage: Words to strengthen the Stander while waiting for your prodigal spouse to come home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Saved Seat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rejoice On The Rails Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStanding For God's Best Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rejoice On The Road Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMillie's Christmas Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Restored Marriage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelp Meet or Hindrance: Which One Are You? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChoosing A Way Out: When the Bottom Isn't the Bottom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarriage Off Course: Trusting God in the Desert of Unwanted Separation or Divorce Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBroken Heart on Hold: Surviving Separation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Husband and Wife Ministry Team Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prodigal Husband: Pamela Dalton Romance Classics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarriage as an Act of Worship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spiritual Covering: What to Look for in a Man, as It Relates to Marriage. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Winning Wife Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Waiting For His Heart: Lessons From a Wife Who Chose to Stay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Satan, You Can't Have My Marriage: The Spiritual Warfare Guide for Dating, Engaged and Married Couples Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Journey to Freedom Through Prayer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSurviving the Storms of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManage Your Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Performing Arts For You
The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Importance of Being Earnest: A Play Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Strange Loop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Macbeth (new classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Whale / A Bright New Boise Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book: The Script Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hamlet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood's Dark History: Silver Screen Scandals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diamond Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unsheltered: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wuthering Heights Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Dolls House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Star Wars: Book of Lists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOur Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Agatha Christie Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRomeo and Juliet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Parts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midsummer Night's Dream, with line numbers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for Two Easters
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Two Easters - Bob Steinkamp
Two Easters
By Bob Steinkamp
Smashwords Edition
Copyright © 2011 Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Republication without written permission is strictly prohibited.
For more information about Rejoice Marriage Ministries, please visit:
http://www.rejoiceministries.org
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
###
Another beautiful day in South Florida. It's 78 degrees here at your Spring break station. Now back to more oldies from the sixties and seventies,
the voice coming from Tom's car radio crooned. Tom Allison was stuck in a traffic jam, but he really didn't mind. He was on A1A, the road that parallels the Fort Lauderdale beach. The afternoon sun pouring into the opened top of his motionless convertible was beating hot on Tom's balding head, but he barely noticed.
With an oldies tune playing in the background, Tom watched the beach and thought about the first time that he had driven that same stretch of AIA. It had been about that same time of year, over 30 years before. He had come to Fort Lauderdale with a car full of guys during spring break from Xavier College. Tom smiled as he recalled all the mischief they had been involved in. That wicked vacation was still the topic of conversation at every college reunion back in Cincinnati.
Life had been good to Tom, until several months ago. After graduation from college, Tom had married Betty Appleton, whom he had dated throughout most of their college days. They settled in Cincinnati. His career as a stock broker had seen its ups and downs during the past three decades. The first few years had been mostly down, but he and Betty were in love and determined to make their marriage work.
Two years after they were married, Brad, their first son was born. Tom and Betty agreed that she should give up her job as the manager of Blooming Flowers by Bud and stay home to raise their son. Tom had taken a night job as a musician across the river from Cincinnati in a Newport, Kentucky night club to supplement his brokerage commissions.
I never thought that my hobby of playing the saxophone would put food on the table,
he had joked more than once, while at the club. Actually, the saxophone had been more than a hobby for Tom. His parents had paid for his lessons during his junior high school years. Tom had played in the marching band at Seven Hills High School and had gone to college on a partial scholarship in music.
It was during those night club days that Tom was re-introduced to drinking and to drugs. It was also during those days, a quarter century ago, that Tom was introduced, by satan himself, to being unfaithful to Betty. My wife has changed since the kid was born. Besides, what does a fling once in a while hurt?
he had once remarked to Todd, the drummer in that band, while boasting about a new conquest.
What does it hurt?
Our friend Tom Allison was opening doors to the enemy that would bring down his marriage. Granted, sin is fun for a season, but 25 years later Tom would realize who his party life was