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Julia

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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
St. Augustine.
After their best friends were killed in a car accident, Joshua and Marcie Benton adopted their nine year old son Eric.  They already had three children of their own, Daniel, age thirteen; Jacob, eleven; and Julia age five. Eric knew his new syblings as friends but adjusting to living in a new place, a new school and new surroundings wasn't easy for Eric. He missed his parents and his grandparents.
Julia had loved Eric since she was baby. She had always looked forward to his visites. Eric lived in Memphis and she was growing up outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. When she learned Eric would be living with him, she was ecsttatic.
She always dreamed of marrying his someday and he shard her dreams. When he decided to become a missiounary, Julia's heart broke. She didn't want to leave her comforts at home or give up her career as and RN for a jungle in Indoneisia. 
God always seems to have plans in our lives we might not always be willing to follow.
Could there still be hope for a future togehter for Eric  and Julia.
The sroty begins in the fall. Eric is thirty and Julia is twenty-five.  After the first chapter we will look back on their lives and the journey leading us back to the first chapter and...All Rights Reserved

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