Ruth Baker has lost her husband, her job and her home. Unsure of what to do with her life next, she responds to her grandmother’s call for help as the ninety-year-old woman waits for a room in a assisted living facility. Though she’s still healing from huge changes in her own life, and torn about leaving her home, she travels to the shores of Long Island to help her grandmother prepare for a big change in her life. Though she has no idea what the future will bring, she hangs on to her faith that God will answer her prayers.
Eli Hamill has been feeling the pull to put down roots. After buying and selling houses in the blink of an eye, his latest project, elderly Eleanora Duncan’s beachside home, has him doing something he’s never done before – live in the house until he has made the sale. From the moment he laid eyes on it, he knew the house was a gem. Although living in one of his sale properties doesn’t follow his usual protocol, it seems like nothing about this deal has. And the last thing he had planned on was getting involved with the seller’s granddaughter, Ruth Baker. Or her adorable six-year-old daughter, Mara.
Can an old house filled with loving memories and a sweet little girl show two lonely people what the future can hold?
About Christina Lorenzen
DIVINE CONNECTIONS
by
Christina Lorenzen
Wherever you go I will go; wherever you live, I will live – Ruth 1:16
After my last novella released in April, I had decided to take some time off. I had been feeling overwhelmed from the demands of building a writing career (for today it’s not just about writing) and care taking of a family member. I spent a month or so thinking about what my goals for my writing were and where I should go next. Not sure where I felt led next, I decided to take time to read, watch movies and pay attention to life around me.
In early June I received a message from a friend and fellow author, with a proposal to join her group in writing and publishing a novella collection based on women of the Bible. In that instant, I not only knew my answer was yes, but I knew exactly which woman I wanted to write my story about – Ruth.
I can’t even count the number of times I have read the Book of Ruth. It’s one of several stories in the Bible that inspire me and give me hope. Strong women inspire all women during times of trial. Ruth, and her mother-in-law Naomi, were that inspiration for me. The project called for a modernized version of the Biblical story using the same name for our heroine. I was eager to get writing.
Like Ruth in the Bible, Ruth Baker’s life has changed after having lost her husband, her job and ultimately the home she shared with her husband Joseph and daughter Mara. When a call for assistance comes from her grandmother, Eleanora Duncan, Ruth is led to believe this is what she should do. She and six-year-old Mara make the long car ride (a journey not quite as long as Ruth and Naomi’s in the Bible) to the seaside town of Pebble Shores to help Ruth’s grandmother as she prepares to transition from her home to a room in an assisted living facility. Already having packed up the house, Eleanora Duncan is now living in the small guest cottage on the property. Ruth is prepared to stay as long as she is needed. What she isn’t prepared for is the new owner of her grandmother’s home, Eli Hamill, becoming so involved in all their lives – especially her six-year-old daughter’s.
I believe in divine connections. I believe in God’s timing. What a blessing writing Ruth’s Garden for this collection, Faithful Women: Legacies of Grace, was. At a time when I was, like Ruth, unsure of how to proceed, God answered through this invitation from my fellow author in this collection, Belle Calhoune. It’s a blessing to be connected through these three women who have authored stories that readers are already saying have inspired and touched them. I hope you’ll read Faithful Women: Legacies of Grace too, and that it blesses you in whatever journey you are traveling right now.
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