God's News for Mercy

By Doreen Milstead

God’s News for Mercy -- A woman's life is shattered when her family sits down for breakfast one day and the head of the family doesn't show up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Hart
• Release date: Feb 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463986950

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God’s News for Mercy

by

Doreen Milstead

Synopsis: God’s News for Mercy --

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

God’s News for Mercy

Synopsis: God’s News for Mercy -- A woman's life is shattered when her family sits down for breakfast one day and the head of the family doesn't show up.

Chapter One

IT WAS A cold March day in 1875, and the early morning hours showed no signs of it becoming one of the most traumatic days of Mercy Porter’s life. She was looking forward to the spring, letting her windows open wide as she would clean, sort clothes and mop the floors in her spacious home.

As she moved about that morning, picking at this and picking at that, she let out a soft holler to her husband, who seemed to be taking quite a while to come down to breakfast. Normally, on such a fine day; he would be the first at the table; but it didn’t seem so today.

Little Lilly had already beat her father to his chair. She did that quite often, would go and jump up on his chair so that when he sat down, he would pretend he did not see her and would lightly sit right on top of her.

Then she would holler out with a Ouch, daddy! He then would rise up quickly, as if he never saw her there. It was a favorite of hers and daddy always seemed to play along with giggles and tickles afterwards, which was more than likely the part she looked forward to most.

But what alerted Mercy the most was when her fourteen-year-old son came down even before his father. Now that was something new and something to be noticed. Her son, Elija was never down before his father and it was usually his father who would have to get him downstairs that early.

So, as Mercy plopped a small bowl of porridge in front of her small daughter, she took off up the stairs to see what could be slowing down her husband. She could not imagine that he would crawl back into bed, especially on this fine day. He had a very busy day ahead of him, with the reports to run today on the new Brigham Young Academy opening.

She knew her husband wouldn’t want to be running behind on that one. The Mormons were in the news and she wanted to make sure that her husband would be the top of the line reporting this news.

Arriving at the top of the stairs, she realized she did not hear his usual whistling as he shaved his face, nor did she hear him tapping his razor on the side of the tub and wondered