Page 218 of Haunt Me

JamesP: Keep the faith.

Eden: To do that, I need to listen to the written words. I can’t read them myself anymore, because I hear them in his voice, in my head. Can you help?

JamesP: Can I help, she asks. I am help incarnate.

Eden: *giggles*

JamesP: Ok, getting started. Tell me when to stop:

Come, all you who are thirsty,

come to the waters

and you who have no money,

come, buy and eat.

Come, buy wine and milk

without money and without cost.

Why spend money on what is not bread,

and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

listen, that you may live.

You will go out in joy

and be led forth in peace

the mountains and hills

will burst into song before you,

and all the trees of the field

will clap their hands.

Instead of the thorn will grow evergreen,

and myrtle instead of briers.

And this will endure forever,

Because I have promised it.

Eden: That was beautiful. Where is it from?

JamesP: You sound like you’re crying. Are you crying? Please don’t cry. Zay will murder me dead.

JamesP: It’s Isaiah 55.

Eden: Of course it’s from the book of Isaiah.

JamesP: It was our dad’s favorite passage. Zay is named after it.

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