Leah set down her beat up suitcase at the foot of the bed, she sighed and looked at the bed, according to a
tradition the man and the woman, don't get to sleep in the same bed until marriage but, for Leah and Ethan
fate wasn't so kind, last night they shared Charity's old room with a separate bed, Ethan made the joke of
what's held separated goes together better Leah had to laugh at that one. Tonight was the same situation
except it was different rooms, Ethan got the one on the left and Leah the one on the right, Ethan knocked
softly on the door, Leah sat in bed fully clothed with a book in her hands, she got off the bed and opened
the door to reveal Ethan, "hi" she whispered, he took her hand and softly kissed it, want to go watch the sun
rise with me?" Leah smiled; "sure" setting her book on the table by her bedside she followed Ethan down
the stairs and out the screen door onto the porch, "This reminds me when I first came to Nappanee for the
summer, you were still so unsure of yourself, you didn't want to disappoint your family or bring them any
shame" Ethan pulled her to his side, "yes but then god gave you to me" Leah smiled, "I am no gift just a
present to show you each day is worth living and that I will always be at your side" Ethan brushed her hair
with his lips, "our lives now I admit will differ, we'll have kids and raise them to know the lord. We'll
grow old together and when we sit just like this and reminisce about the old days we'll remember that all
has been provided by god, Leah smiled, "if what hasn't happened with my mother and I it would be
possible I'd still be in Knightstown or somewhere else in the globe, I am not happy with what I did but I am
happy that I went back to the past and went back to Nappanee and tried to see you again, I thank the lord it
was easy to pick up where we left off" Ethan nodded, "my mother once told me that back in the hospital
when you were going through that terrible nightmare that I'd marry you one day, but when you left me at
the fence and never gave me a chance I thought that she was wrong but I had to put faith in and three and a
half years later here we sit as a newly wedded couple" Leah kissed his rough hand, "I can say that the lord
has provided for me and you, us and that all the work that has been done through our lives all the struggles
we faced as a Amish and English couple, is finally paying off" Ethan smiled at Leah, "I guess your right, I
was looking into the past to relive all those good times when I should be setting the future and making
more good times" Leah nodded, "you understand the importance of what we are Ethan, we are god's
servants not him as ours, it's like the day, we have from the sun rises until it sets to be productive in harvest
spend time with god be a father or a mother to the children teach them what we want them to know, and try
and set the best example so that they can follow, it's a lot but it can be done with a lot of trust and faith,
it's not like the unknown where your blind, it's a little light for the hopes that you have" Ethan touched her
cap, "how'd did I ever marry a smart woman?" Leah smiled, "you courted her and made a lot of hard
decisions, you impacted her to know she had purpose and you loved her truly and unconditionally, and she
came back to you when you weren't looking for her" As the sun rose hand in hand Leah and Ethan
watched, it was like their lives together seeing it for the first time and believing it was real.