If I tell you right up front,
right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You
will know it’s
coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare.
Someone found him in a laundry
basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to
death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o’clock news – the little baby left in a basket at a dingy
Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems.
I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body,
like he’d been broken at
birth. I knew that wasn’t what
the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was
broken drew me to him from the start.
It all happened before I was born,
and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old
news and nobody wanted anything to do with him. People love babies, even sick
babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to
be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up teenager.
And Moses was messed up. Moses was
a law unto himself. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. To be
with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. Maybe I
should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My mother warned me.
Even Moses warned me. But I didn’t stay away.
And so begins a story of pain and
promise, of heartache and healing, of life and death. A story of before and
after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But most of all...a love story.
Amy is giving away a $100 Amazon
gift card, this is an international giveaway.
Amy Harmon has been a motivational
speaker, a grade school teacher, a junior high teacher, a home school mom, and
a member of the Grammy Award winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by
Gladys Knight. She released a Christian Blues CD in 2007 called “What I Know” – also
available on Amazon and wherever digital music is sold. She has written five
novels, Running Barefoot, Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, the
New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue, Making Faces and most recently,
Infinity + One.
Her newest book, The Law of Moses
releases November 27, 2014.
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