The Beginning Of A New Dawn
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This is the author’s first book in a new series, titled ‘The Christian Fiction Library’ series. The book deals with a love story within a love story. The main character is a young woman, who although born into a wealthy family with loving parents, she is not shielded from the kind of mistakes and tragedy which can come to any person and any family. The story is realistic and draws upon many situations from the author’s counseling ministry, which should be of help to many readers. The book is written from the perspective of a Christian worldview and should be of interest to any believer who appreciates a good story which does not leave God out of human affairs. This is the author’s tenth published work.
Roger Henri Trepanier
Roger Henri Trepanier is an evangelist, author, and counselor, who has been serving God on his field of service since 1999. One hundred and nine books have been published so far in five different series, all available in print format and as an eBook for any type of eBook reader. He is a widower with three adopted children, all now married.The author's two websites have been closed. To access the author's books, please type, "Roger Henri Trepanier, books" in any search engine. All the author's books are available in print and ebook formats for all devices.
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The Beginning Of A New Dawn - Roger Henri Trepanier
Preface
Chapter One
Born with a silver spoon in her mouth
Chapter Two
Even silver tarnishes
Chapter Three
A rose has thorns
Chapter Four
Facing the music
Chapter Five
The timing could not have been worse
Chapter Six
Clouds, but with a silver lining
Chapter Seven
Tom
Chapter Eight
A baring of souls
Chapter Nine
Tom meets the family
Chapter Ten
More of the unexpected
Chapter Eleven
A sleepless night and a longing for Tom
Chapter Twelve
Dawn discovers a whole new world
Chapter Thirteen
The miracles continue
Chapter Fourteen
Dawn meets Tom’s family
Chapter Fifteen
Wedding bells are a ringing
Chapter Sixteen
Planned and unplanned
The Next Book
End Page
Preface
This is the author’s first book in The Christian Fiction Library
series. It is hoped that many will enjoy this love story within a love story, which has been a real pleasure to write. In fact, on many days I did not want to stop, even for meals, as the words were flowing freely.
Since the author is also a Christian counselor of many years, there are many aspects of that counseling experience which has been incorporated into the story and it is hoped will be helpful to many.
And as can be expected in a work of fiction, the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarities to real persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and were not the intent of the author.
Trusting all will enjoy the story!
Roger Henri Trepanier
"Behold, children are a gift of the Lord,
the fruit of the womb is a reward."
Psalm 127:3
Chapter One
/ Born with a silver spoon in her mouth
If ever there was a child born with a silver spoon in her mouth, it was Dawn. Not only was she a healthy 7 lbs at birth, but she had beautiful blond hair and sky blue eyes, which was enough to make one look twice, even at this stage of her life. Her parents, Ben and Sarah, had anticipated this moment for almost nine months, Dawn being the first offspring of a couple in love. They had been married for almost two years, having been sweethearts since their freshman year in college, where they met. Now Dawn was resting comfortably in her mother’s arms, barely a day old. Both sets of proud grandparents have arrived, along with a host of other family, friends, and even neighbors, since Ben’s father, Jim had been raised in the area and was very well known. Hospital staff is having a hard time maintaining the hospital rule of only four visitors in the room at any one time.
Ben is by Sarah’s hospital bed beaming from ear to ear. On the table nearby is a beautiful flower arrangement to Sarah from Ben, with a large box of chocolates. Ben will have to hold off on that box of cigars he had also purchased, not knowing if the child was to be a boy or a girl. But a girl it was and Ben’s heart was still overflowing with thankfulness for what God had provided them. Although Ben believed, like so many, that there was a God, yet no one ever told him that he could know Him personally. To Ben, God was just the ‘Big Guy Upstairs,’ as he was in the habit of calling Him. Sarah’s faith did not go much deeper. Being a woman, she had more refined spiritual sensitivities than her husband and yearned for something more than just believing that there was a Creator of all the beauty she saw in nature around where they lived.
When Sarah had started having her labor pains early the previous morning, Ben did not waste any time in driving her to the nearest hospital in the northwest of the city, which was twenty miles from their resort. His father, who had retired at forty-five, having made his fortune in real estate by then, had turned the controlling share of the resort over to Ben, who had graduated from college with a degree in Hotel and Resort Management, the spring before their summer marriage. Sarah had graduated with a degree in nursing, which was a perfect match for the Twin Peaks Resort, Golf, and RV Park, which they now partly owned and managed.
The resort owned 300 acres of property semi-circle around Crystal Lake, about a mile wide by two miles long, which was fed by a year round river from two opposing sets of glacial mountains, less than a mile away and running north and south. The state owned the first sixty feet around the lake, which had been designated for public access. The resort owned 160 units on the lake, eighty one bedroom units, sixty two bedroom units, and forty three bedroom units going from west to east. The 300 spot RV Park ran the full length behind the units, with a paved road owned by the resort separating the two areas. There was a public beach across from units, which was just over 1000 feet from the turnoff from the four lane Interstate Highway nearby, which continued on into the next state, going through a pass between the two sets of mountains. The state had also built a small hydroelectric dam at the east end of the lake to control the water at a constant level, so there would never be any flooding, and also to provide electricity which was being fed in the state electric grid.
About 1000 feet from the Interstate turnoff, and before reaching the lake, there was a road going west which lead to the eight bedroom house, sitting on ten acres of property, which had a ten foot high wall all around, which was where Ben and Sarah lived. This is where Ben’s parents, Jim and Dot, had lived before they semi-retired and moved to another state. On the same road coming from the Interstate and running north, and just before arriving at the lake, there was a resort office, a restaurant, a store, and a small clinic managed by Sarah. On the other side of the Interstate was an 18 hole executive golf course, with a clubhouse, also owned by the resort, with the two areas being connected by an overpass over the highway, with a separate lane for motorized golf carts. There were many year round residents who stayed in the RV Park, or who rented a unit from the resort. Ben and Sarah oversaw a staff of over ninety employees, which kept them busy.
Ben has just been told by the doctor that he can take Sarah home the next morning, barely thirty-six hours after she gave birth, as both Sarah and child have been examined and found to be in excellent health. So Dawn’s young life is seen to start on the best of footings – as used by the standards of this world - she was wanted, had parents who loved each other, were well-off financially, and she was a healthy baby. Her parents would be there to provide whatever their little girl would ever need or want. Maybe that spoon was of gold, and not silver!
Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Chapter Two
/ Even silver tarnishes
Even the flattest of roads eventually encounter a bump or two. After all, this is life on earth and not Heaven. And fairy tales are only the product of someone’s imagination. Then too, good beginnings do not automatically mean a good ending. Life is unknowable, which is why God says to the human race, Come now, you who say,
Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit. Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say,
If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that. But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
So although Dawn started life here on earth with loving parents, who were well to do financially, she still faced some challenges growing up.
Two years after Dawn was born, Ben and Sarah added a pair of identical twins to their family, Amy and Zoe. As anyone knows who has ever grown up with a set of identical twins, they act as one. That is to say, they not only dress alike, but