Worth It

By Maddie Broome

Sometimes we walk away blind from what God wants to give us. And sometimes we turn back around.
 

When her father goes off to war, young Claire thinks God isn’t listening to her prayers much less answering them. Then a raggedy old man and a stray dog help her to understand that sometimes God answers prayers in unexpected ways – and that while He might not always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need.

(Christian short - 6500 words)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maddie Broome
• Release date: Sep 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502229113

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Sometimes we walk away blind from what God wants to give us.  And sometimes we turn back around.

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When her father goes off to war, young Claire thinks God isn’t listening to her prayers much less answering them.  Then a raggedy old man and a stray dog help her to understand that sometimes God answers prayers in unexpected ways – and that while He might not always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need.

Worth It

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Maddie Broome

© 2011 by Janice Norstrom

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This book is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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Sometimes daddies went to war. 

Claire had known that for as long as she could remember.  Most of her friends had daddies – and mommies too sometimes – who’d gone to war.  Not a big war like she'd seen in the movies.  But big enough.  Big enough that they were gone.  And big enough that her friends cried sometimes for missing them.

Claire knew now how they’d felt.

Her daddy had always told her she didn't have to worry about him going off to war too.  He wasn't that kind of soldier, he'd said.  Only it turned out he was.  So off he'd gone, across the ocean to a whole other country.

It didn’t seem right.  Daddies were supposed to go to work, not war.  They