Sometimes a Light Surprises

Jamie Langston Turner

• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781441204394

Though it was years ago, Ben Buckley has never gotten over the loss of his wife. But even more than the mystery surrounding her death is the radical change that occurred in her life shortly beforehand. Their marriage was unusually happy--until she met a woman who "turned her on to religion." Baffled, angry, and still feeling guilty for the way he treated Chloe those final weeks, Ben now lives behind the protective walls of severed relationships and a rigid work routine.

When two unlikely people enter his narrow world, Ben's view of his life begins to change, and gradually the barriers he's erected around himself come tumbling down.

For readers who enjoy character-driven, thought-provoking stories that stay with them long after the last page is turned.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table Of Contents
• 1. Not on Sundays
• 2. Silly Word Games
• 3. A Third and Fateful Time
• 4. The Subject of Rituals
• 5. Curses and Judgments
• 6. No Easy Answer
• 7. A Slow, Sad Dream
• 8. Rich in Symbolism
• 9. A Candle Burning
• 10. What Might Have Been
• 11. A Sort of Tithe
• 12. What Kind of Father
• 13. The Same Language
• 14. A Brief Glimmer
• 15. One Long, Long Week
• 16. Millions of Tiny Pieces
• 17. Preference for Shadows
• 18. Some Vision or Wonder
• 19. Moment of Truth
• 20. Part of Another Life
• 21. Heathen Land
• 22. Clear Leading
• 23. Something Legitimately Fragile
• 24. Common Things Like Trees
• 25. Divine Means
• 26. Swirl of Stars
• 27. An Ordinary Man’s Heart
• 28. Appointed Cycles
• 29. The Sound of Many Voices
• 30. Rising Moon
• 31. Between Two Testaments
• 32. In Spite of the Cold
• 33. A Very Certain Plan
• 34. After Rain