Cross Roads (34 page)
Authors: William P. Young
Any use of local area landmarks and haunts is entirely on purpose and for a reason. Oregon is gorgeous and a wonderful place to live and raise a family, and I am grateful to you.
Finally and at the center is the self-giving, other-centered love of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, displayed extravagantly to us in the person of Jesus. Your grace is relentless affection independent of performance—a love that we are not powerful enough to change.
If you look for Truth
you may find comfort in the end.
If you look for comfort
you will not get neither comfort nor truth,
only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin
and in the end, despair.
—C. S. Lewis
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ONTENTS
Chapter 1: A Congregation of Storm
Chapter 4: Home Is Where the Heart Is
Chapter 5: And Then There Was One
Chapter 6: Heated Conversations
Chapter 8: What Is the Soul of a Man?
Chapter 9: A Storm of Congregation
Chapter 11: Betwixt and Between
Chapter 12: A Thickening of Plots
A Note to the Readers and Acknowledgments
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by William Paul Young
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