The Angels Are in Wyoming
The Soothers
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He looked at her closely but in a kind manner. "Ginny, I don't know why a lot of people are killed...a lot of good people...and then a lot of rotten crooks are allowed to walk the streets after crooked judges let 'em go. I just don't get it. I don't understand!" "That's the very reason a lot of people get mad at God, just like Job did. Reverend Worthingson talked about Job one morning, a man tempted by Satan who lost so much...even his own family. He didn't understand why either. Three of his so-called friends condemned him. But, despite that, God spoke to Job out of a whirlwind and reminded him that he, God, was in control and was happy with him. But the other three, God spoke harshly to them." She made her own commentarial statement. "Jack, we don't know all the 'why's', but we must have faith that God is a just God and that he knows what is best." She employed levity. "That's all the preaching I'll do. I know I get carried away." "No, that's okay. Maybe someday I'll come around to seein' it your way." "I do think you'll like it." That was the first of the conversations Jack and Ginny conducted, and it was also the inception of something he would come to like, much more than even he realized at the present moment.
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As Jack Samson rides into the small Wyoming town of Grigsby one wintery morning, he does not know what lies in store for him. All he does know is that announcing his arrival with gunfire, and soon after, beating the local drunk—even if it is to protect a child—makes for a bad first impression. But then the town’s suspicions of him are not completely unfounded; after all, he is running from the law.
Still, a few locals give their visitor the shadow of a doubt: Pastor James Worthingson, for one, and the beautiful widowed innkeeper, Virginia White, along with her mother and daughter. These “angels” see through the moody, mysterious exterior of this dark stranger, to find that Samson is merely a bitter soul in need of God’s love. These allies enlist the help of select locals—the blacksmith, who offers Samson work, but more importantly, the church, which offers him direction. Meanwhile, Virginia and Jack find themselves falling for each other, and it isn’t long before Samson feels he’s on the up-and-up.
About the Author
G. David Redding graduated from Georgetown College in 1970 and taught French for ten years before being called into ministry. He then attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, graduating in December 1986 and moving to South Carolina the following summer. Since then, he has pastored various churches and has done chaplaincy work with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health in Columbia, where he lives with his wife Daphne, who is a chaplain with the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. As a young boy, Redding travelled extensively throughout the West. In 1967 and 1968, he lived in Nigeria with his missionary father, and his return trip took him through Europe and the Holy Land.