Amish: Sylvia's Challenge

By Jeannette Melton

Sylvia, a young Amish woman, knows about hard work on a farm. After an unfortunate incident on the farm, she finds herself alone and expecting her first child after the death of her husband. She works the farm alone and finds that she cannot handle the workload on her own. Will she be able to endure the hardship?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeannette Melton
• Release date: Dec 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310447815

Jeannette Melton

Jeannette Melton is a single mother. She resides in South Florida. As a young girl, she wanted to write children's books. After raising her children, she now has time to write books.

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Sylvia’s Challenge

An Amish Story

Jeannette Melton

Copyright © 2015 by Jeannette Melton.

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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are construed not to be real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. This book may not be reproduced whole or in part by any means without the written permission of the author. All rights reserved.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to my wonderful family for all of your support.

Special thanks to Melody Simmons at for the wonderful ebook cover and Lucinda Campbell for formatting the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeannette Melton resides in sunny South Florida. She enjoys walking on the beach, listening to music, watching movies, and spending time with her children. She was in high school when she found that she wanted to write funny stories. With her busy career and with the raising of her children, she put off her dream of writing. To complete her dream of writing, she brings to you AMISH: Sylvia’s Challenge.

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Job 11:18

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Chapter One

Being pregnant and alone was a lot of things, none of which was desirable. Sylvia Bender was pregnant, widowed, and lonely. She felt nearly helpless and as the pregnancy grew, so did her despair with each passing day. She walked up the slightly sloped hill that led to her tiny house in the woods. She thought about how her happy life had changed abruptly to a lonely and deafeningly quiet life. She didn’t need anyone to tell her that a streak of bad luck had decided to attend her way. What more there was little or nothing she could do about her predicament. Her husband, Turner’s, parents were too old to help out and her own parents lived too far away. Besides, she didn’t think she had a right to bother them after all that they had done for her already.

She had accepted her fate. She would live a life that pleased the Lord and try to the best of her ability to live her life according to his precepts. As much as she tried to do what was right, she found herself questioning god's plan for her. Quite often, she cried herself to sleep and cursing her ill fate that had doomed her to being a widow so early in life. As much as she attempted to remain filled with the happiness of the Lord, somehow, she could not stop the flow of sadness that seemed to come with the morning sickness.

She had been married in the church to a beautiful, hard-working man who loved her very much. Turner was a kind and gentle man. When they married, everyone gushed about how lucky she was and how