Cup of Bitterness Cup of Joy
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The eerie monster hovered over her with its emanation of evil. Elizabeth wanted to cover her head with Grandma Crandall's quilt, but she could not move. And in any case, she knew from past experience the monster would still be, visible to her. Her eyes moved inexorably from the murky green bottom of the figure to the face at the top. The monster’s body varied from nightmare to nightmare, but the face remained the same: innocuous with hazel eyes, a pinched looking nose and thin-lipped mouth -- the whole surrounded by sandy hair plastered tightly to the skull. Not a memorable face under ordinary circumstances.
But burned into her memory forever. The face of the boy who had done that thing to her that had changed her life forever. Would she never forget?
She had to go to the outhouse, but she literally could not get out of bed, a scream was stuck in her throat and she was shaking. There was a green pot with pink flowers under the cast iron bed. The pot was far too pretty for the use, she often thought. She had told her mother once that Helen Hayes' mother or Charles Mac Arthur's in a fit of anger had served soup in one to their guests, and that it was the right idea. Her mother had been appalled; her father had chuckled. She preferred to go to the outhouse because she hated to empty the pot. Compressing her lips, she stilled her trembling limbs, dropped the quilts onto the bed, and leapt onto the frigid floor. The room was equally cold--Daddy had not gotten up to put wood in the furnace yet.
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Cup of Bitterness Cup of Joy
spans about 65 years in the lives of two young girls who were sexually abused
as young children.
Mara
is befriended by a teenager who comes briefly into the home to escape the juvenile
justice system of
This
the story of two girls whose lives are briefly intertwined in childhood and
then years later are interwoven by God's grace and wonder once more.
Their bitterness has turned to joy. .
About the Author
She is a mother and grandmother who has
written since she wrote and produced plays as a child for neighbors and
classmates. As a