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Authors: Mindy Starns Clark
The Buck Stops Here (48 page)
The canon ended and the bridal march began. The people stood and turned to look back at us, smiling. As my dad and I started up the aisle, my mind was suddenly filled with a snippet of a familiar psalm:
He put a new song in my mouth…
That was my “something new,” I realized. A new
song.
Somehow, through all the pain and the loss, God had chosen to bless me yet again. My father gave me away and I took Tom’s arm and looked into his eyes. As I did, I saw reflected there all the love I would ever need for the rest of my life.
“Dearly Beloved,” the pastor said. “We are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony.”
It had been a long road to get where I was right now. But all along the way, God had been there, holding me up, carrying me through, loving me. Now He was about to become the center of a union, the third strand in a cord that would not be broken.
“Thank You, Lord,” I whispered softly as a prayer.
Then I started the next great adventure of my life.
Other Books by Mindy Starns Clark
The Million Dollar Mysteries
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels
A Dime a Dozen
A Quarter for a Kiss
The Buck Stops Here
A Smart Chick Mystery
The Trouble with Tulip
Blind Dates Can Be Murder
Elementary, My Dear Watkins
Standalone Mysteries
Whispers of the Bayou
Shadows of Lancaster County
Under the Cajun Moon
Secrets of Harmony Grove
Contemporary Fiction
The Amish Midwife
(cowritten with Leslie Gould)
The Amish Nanny
(cowritten with Leslie Gould)
Nonfiction
The House That Cleans Itself
A Pocket Guide to Amish Life
Gift Book
Simple Joys of the Amish Life
(cowritten with Georgia Varozza and illustrated by Laurie Snow Hein)
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