The Wind Chime

By Paula ‘Chelle

Savannah and Beau found a love to endure for all time on the ole ranch in Texas where they met. Their great-niece, Cheyenne was in search to find what it was they had together that would keep a couple together, forever.

Cheyenne is a single mother, wondering will she ever be loved like her Uncle Beau loved her Aunt Savannah. It was her mission to find out what it was in their life she needed to be able to stay in love forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 10, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462008230

Paula ‘Chelle

When I was 15 years of age. I went through a dark depression over a young man I had been dating. My mother was so worried about me, she took me to my church and I counseled with a Professor from Dallas Baptist College. After speaking with me for about an hour this professor stated to me, looking me right in the eyes, “You have a book inside of you that you will write someday”. That statement still resounds within my thought pattern to this day. Later on in life, I went to a well known church in Dallas, TX, where the preacher stood at the platform, and said, something like this to the audience. There is someone in here today that was suppose to write a book years ago, and you haven’t stepped out in faith. But God is telling you to write that book that is where you will find your blessing. Then my mother went through breast cancer years back and I would write to my friends explaining what we were going through. Their response would be, “when are you going to write a book?” This past Christmas I wrote a letter to a dear friend, that I had not seen in about a year. I wrote about the love she had between her and her husband and how it was a beautiful sight to me. When I called her to see if she had received my gift and my letter she stated back to me, “Paula, I cried, your letter was so beautiful. When are you going to write a book?” That was the last time, I was going to hear this and not do something about it. Here you go, my first book. I hope you find the message I am trying to portray within my writings.

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Dedication

This writing is dedicated to my mother, Maxie who always believed in me. To my daughter, Natalie my gift from God that told me just do it, mom. To my friend Gail who always made me feel I would reach my destiny one day. To my friend Dee, who prayed for me and worshipped with me. To my friend Cynthia that always makes me laugh. To my Aunt Ann who always makes me feel loved when she’s around.

And to my Dad, David, who always made me feel like I could do anything.

This is for you.

Table of Contents

Dedication

CHAPTER 1

The Cleaning

CHAPTER 2

This Ole Town

CHAPTER 3

Uncle Beau Meets Aunt Savannah

CHAPTER 4

The Questions

CHAPTER 5

Savannah

CHAPTER 6

Wise Words from Mr. Brand

CHAPTER 7

The Wedding

CHAPTER 8

In Sickness and in Health

CHAPTER 1

The Cleaning

As Cheyenne swept the floors of the old house on the hill, she would dream of a love like the one her Uncle Beau would speak of that he shared with her Aunt Savannah. The house was to be cleaned so that the family could sell it. This would help fund for Uncle Beau to live in an assisted living facility just north of town. The house was small compared to the ones back in the city where Cheyenne and her family resided. The house came with a big front porch where a swing would hang for evening talks for the couple. This house was surely built in the 1940’s, Cheyenne thought.

The house had memories galore of days of ole. When times were slower paced, doors were kept unlocked. To lock a front door would be suspicious or considered rude, back then everyone was welcomed into the house of Beau and Savannah Reign.

As Cheyenne stood in the hallway she watched her relatives throw away items that she felt were heirlooms. They just saw old items that were outdated and trash. She thought to herself, funny how people see things in different perspective. She saw items that had been held in the hand of her great Uncle Beau. They saw items that had dust on them and out dated.

To keep peace she would just look away and find another room that needed to be swept. She headed to the guest room no one had been in this room she gathered. There was plenty of dust but things had not been moved. She walked in the beautiful room decorated with her aunts’ belongings and decorations. She was taken back in her mind of a time she had come to stay in the house with her aunt and uncle when she was a mere child. She remembered the bedroom set and the bedspread and the lamp in the corner. Everything was still as it was when she had stayed with them decades ago.

She pondered, why had her uncle not updated the room since her aunts passing? Why keep the room just as it was when she was alive and guest would come and stay with the couple. She couldn’t cloud her mind with why’s at this moment. She had a job to do and it was to clean.

As she swept the old wood floors her broom gathered more than just dust. She looked down at the floor and saw a dull pewter wind chime that had metal boots cut out with a string and chimes hanging down. Cheyenne’s first thought was