They Almost Always Come Home
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healing? How might it threaten their post-wilderness
lives? What proactive measures would you advise them
to take?
12. What was the one thing Libby discovered she needed?
So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering
the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it,
for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.
—Hebrews 10:23, Amplified Bible
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Cynthia Ruchti writes and produces the daily
15-minute radio broadcast The Heartbeat of the Home and
is editor of the broadcast’s Backyard Friends magazine.
She currently serves as president of American Christian
Fiction Writers. With warmth and passion, she speaks
for women’s events and writers’ conferences. Cynthia and
her plot-tweaking husband live in the heart of Wisconsin
where she creates stories of “hope that glows in the dark.” Find Cynthia on the web at www.cynthiaruchti.com or www.hopethatglowsinthedark.com.
She would leave her husband . . .
if she could find him.
When Libby’s husband, Greg, fails to return from a solo canoe trip to the Canadian wilderness, the authorities write off his disappearance as an unhappy husband’s escape from an oatmeal marriage and an unrewarding career. But was it? She can’t leave him if she can’t find him. With the help of her father-in-law and her best friend, Libby plunges into the wilderness to search for
her husband and the remnants of her flagging faith.
He was supposed to be fishing. He was supposed to come home.
And she was supposed to care.
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