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you’d
ask.” She once again watched the growing storm, and wondered if the same storm
was hitting the ranch on the morning side of the mountain.  “I’ve been
worrying all afternoon about leaving this house.  I don’t know why it
didn’t dawn on me before,” she spun around face Maggie.  “It would be the
perfect solution for both of us.”
    “Slow down,
girl.  You’ve lost me.”
    “It’s
simple.  You need a house and I need a house sitter.”  Adrianna
beamed.  She could help Maggie in a way that would not hurt her pride or
sense of independence, and solve her own dilemma at the same time. ‘God
really does open doors for those who wait on his wisdom,’ she
thought.    
    “It would be the
answer to my prayers, and I have to admit I’d be thrilled to live in this
house.  Are you certain?”  Maggie wanted to be sure Adrianna thought
this through.
    “Nothing would
please me more.   Chad and Amy could still come home with you here.”
Adrianna smiled and turned from the storm.  “This way I can take on new
responsibilities and not forsake my family.”
    “No one could ever
accuse you of forsaking us.”  Maggie moved to brush a rogue hair from
Adrianna’s cheek.  “You’ve always been the glue that held this bunch
together.”  She looked out at the drifting snow.  “I’m too wound up
to sleep and the roads must be awful by now.  Mind if I stay over?”
    Adrianna threw her
head back in laughter.  “You just want to be the one to open the door
tomorrow morning when Mr. Kilbourne comes to pick me up for breakfast.”
    “Right on,
Sis!”  Maggie exclaimed, as she headed for the kitchen.  She couldn’t
wait to see his face.  “Breakfast is it?  I’d only heard about going
to meet with his grandson.”
    “We need to decide
how to approach him about my going home with them when he leaves the
hospital.  I sure would like to make one trip up there before then to move
some of my stuff in, and take inventory of what else I’ll need.”
    Maggie could see
Adrianna making lists in her mind as she spoke.  “Why don’t I make us some
hot chocolate, and you get a pen and pad?  I’ll help you with the list
you’re building in your head.”  She took the whistling pot from the stove
and turned off the burner.  “Where is the mix?”
    “Left top cupboard
by the sink,” Adrianna yelled from the den while grabbing supplies off the
desk.  She strolled back to the kitchen and found Maggie stirring up a
treat.
    “Aunt Maggie’s
famous brownies are coming up.”  She turned to see Adrianna shaking her
head and patting her hips.  “Well, you surely don’t expect me to work on
an empty stomach do you?”  Maggie pouted. 
    Adrianna had to
admit that right now Brownies sounded really good.
    They worked on the
list for some time, listing personal essentials first.  They had differing
ideas of what constituted essential and this was going to prove to be a very
long night.  The brownies and hot chocolate lasted longer than they did
however, and they finally drug themselves off to bed in the early morning
hours.  Adrianna set the alarm for seven o’clock, giving herself an hour
to get ready before Jack Kilbourne arrived.  She had decided to feed him
at home rather than eat out, and wondered if he’d like her cooking.  She
was planning the menu as she fell asleep.
    Maggie peeked in
on Adrianna.  She was already fast asleep.  ‘How truly wonderful
it would be to feel so confident you could just drift off without replaying
every decision of the day over and over in your head.’  For years she
had watched Adrianna do just that, turning the rest over to the God she trusted
implicitly.  ‘ I wonder if I’ll ever have the courage and faith to turn
my life over to God?’  She would pray for the courage to do that
beginning tonight.  She would also pray for Adrianna, although somehow she
had the feeling God was already in charge of that situation.

TWO
     
    The blizzard