Seeing is Believing

By L. D. Wenzel

"Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see."
Luke 10:23

Manny and Harald Nelson, they knew their foster-child was special. As devote Christians, the elderly couple gave her a home filled with love at their cherry orchard farm in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin. Luna had a special gift, a way of seeing Nature with vision going beyond what ordinary people see. Like in the fantasy-land of Narnia, whenever Luna passed through the old iron gate at the orchard's end, she left the world of flowers, trees, and tall grass and entered the realm of meadow-fairies and elves.

With her simple Christian faith, Manny believed God to have sent Luna as a gift and that her motherly calling was to nurture the child. One day Luna would use her heavenly insight to bring blessing to all God's children.

Elsewhere, Luna's perceptions wrought a variety reactions in the tiny village of Ellison Bay. The members at the local Bible church, where the Nelsons worshiped, were of another mindset. For them, these visions weren't from God but something Evil. Suspicions grew that Sister Manny had been deceived into fostering an unholy child. Other townspeople rumored Luna to be a psychic medium, and a few New Agers even saw her as a "Star-Child", endowed with supernatural powers and possibly an Alien.

Follow Luna as she passes in and out of the magic portal, making friends with Weenah and the flower-fairies beyond the meadow and trees into the land of Entréea. Follow as Manny and Harald seek to protect her and lovingly guide her along the spiritual path. Will the folks at church or the New Agers succeed in imposing their vision of reality on this happy home? What will Luna's destiny be?

Read “Seeing is Believing” a novelette of about 8,000 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L. D. Wenzel
• Release date: Jan 11, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370676538

L. D. Wenzel

I am an American author who lives in Norway. I write literary books dealing with relgious themes like crisis of faith, religious extremism, and coming of age.

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Seeing is Believing

by L. D. Wenzel

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First published in 2015 by Grimbold Books

in: These Twisted Roots. Thanks to Zoë Harris

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Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see.

Luke 10:23

No one really knew how Luna first came to live with Manny and Harald Nelson.

T'was a miracle, insisted Manny. The Lord brought this precious child to our humble home. Nothing more to say.

The story goes that the golden-locked girl simply appeared on the old woman's doorstep, sound asleep in a wicker basket.

I felt like Pharaoh's daughter liftin' baby Moses right out of the Nile, she would say.

Who was this orphaned four-year-old, and how did she end up with an elderly couple in rural Wisconsin?

"Things are not as other-worldly as my wife remembers, Harald would say. There were lots of bureaucratic snags along the way."

Within a month a welfare woman, Janice McClure, knocked at their door. Mrs. Nelson, a missing child is a serious matter, and kidnapping is a crime.

Manny shot back, This child was a gift to us from our Lord. Read this note someone pinned to the basket: ''My name is Luna. Will you please take care of me?'

The woman stuffed the note into her handbag. 'Dr. Nygaard will evaluate this back at Family Services. Meanwhile, it is my job to evaluate your family as an appropriate foster home. The woman focused on the dozens of fruit jars strewn about the kitchen counters. Manny was making the cherry jam she sold to tourists. Luna stood on a chair beside her, waving a wooden spoon.

This is a Christian home, said Manny. "The child will