The Healer's Touch
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Authors: Lori Copeland
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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Cover by Garborg Design Works, Savage, Minnesota
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE HEALER'S TOUCH
Copyright © 2014 by Lori Copeland, Inc.
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Copeland, Lori.
The healer's touch / Lori Copeland.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-7369-5653-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5654-3 (eBook)
1. Single womenâFiction. 2. Family secretsâFiction. I. Title.
PS3553.O6336H43 2014
813'.54âdc23
2013043581
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Contents
(free sample) Rainy Day Dreams
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
I
SAIAH
53:5
M
issouri
. Fertile rolling hills, craggy caves, and early morning mist slowly lifting in deep hollows. That's the beautiful setting where I grew up.
The Ozark Mountain scenery is hauntingly exquisite in the spring. One of the reasons I'm thankful God made me a Missourian is because of the state's four distinctive seasonsâall with their own drawbacks, but lovely indeed. Today, as I'm writing this, winter is showing off its finery in melting snow-packed trails and in sparkling icicles hanging from ice-covered bluffs.
When spring finally comes, those same riverbanks and steep cliffs come alive with redbuds, dogwoods, reddish pink tall thistle, the proud and purple Beggar's Lice, showy white blackberry bush, and wild Sweet William.
Long summer nights are lit by fireflies, sweet scented yellow honeysuckle, and window-rattling thunderstorms.
Fall shimmers with the yellow and orange of Tickseed Sunflower and Sheep Sorrel. The vast array of trees produces radiant reds supplied by sugar maples and showy oaks.
Among the Ozark's beauty lie deep secrets, old wives' tales, and superstitions. Some tales are sworn to be factual, but others are rather dubious. Some are out-and-out unbelievable. But the story you're about to readâthe story of the “Spooklight”âis true.
Or so it is said.
I have seen this mysterious light. I have witnessed it roaming the small stretch of gravel road near Joplin, Missouri, where it still lurks today. It's a country road tucked away from sight. Cars have been noted to sit bumper to bumper there, waiting to see the “Spooklight.”
