The Preacher's Choice
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Isaiah Morrison is a man after God’s heart. Even though his wife divorces him, Isaiah continues to preach and declare the goodness of the Lord. He is content to live alone for the rest of his life, never imagining that God has something else in mind for him.
The first day Ramona Verse walked into Christ Tabernacle, she fell in love with everything about the church, and especially the handsome self-assured man behind the pulpit. But would a man like Pastor Morrison ever consider a woman with a dark past like hers? Ramona and Pastor Morrison are brought together through his need for someone to head his charity foundation, but Isaiah will soon discover that he needs much more from the secretive Miss Verse than he ever thought possible.
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The Preacher's Choice - Vanessa Miller
The Preacher’s Choice
3rd Book in the Blessed and Highly Favored Series
By
Vanessa Miller
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The Preacher’s Choice
Copyright © 2011 by Vanessa Miller
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Other Books by Vanessa Miller
Long Time Coming
A Promise of Forever Love
A Love for Tomorrow
Yesterday’s Promise
Forgiven
Forsaken
Through the Storm
Rain Storm
Latter Rain
Abundant Rain
Former Rain
Anthologies (Editor)
Keeping the Faith
Have A Little Faith
This Far by Faith
EBOOKS
Love Isn’t Enough
A Mighty Love
The Blessed One (Blessed and Highly Favored series)
The Wild One (Blessed and Highly Favored Series)
The Preacher’s Choice (Blessed and Highly Favored Series)
The Politician’s Wife (Blessed and Highly Favored Series)
The Playboy’s Redemption (Blessed and Highly Favored Series)
Chapter One
Twenty-five candles. They weren’t just celebrating a birthday… Elaine was in remission and was able to be with them on her twenty-fifth birthday. So, the Morrison family was celebrating life. Elaine bent down and blew out the candles on her marble cake, which was a mix of vanilla, coffee and chocolate just the way she liked it. After blowing out the candles, she looked around the table and beamed with overflowing joy. Thank you all for sharing this day with me.
Joel sat at the head of the table. Elaine was at the opposite end with her husband John, her hero, next to her. On the other side of Elaine, sat Natua. Drake was in between Natua and Dee Dee, while the preacher and the politician sat on the opposite side of the table.
I wonder why Shawn didn’t come.
Elaine said as she began cutting slices of her cake and putting it on plates for her family.
Dee Dee nervously glanced at Isaiah, her brother, the preacher, hadn’t been able to adopt a forgiving attitude since he learned that his younger brother, Shawn the playboy, had had sex with his ex-wife the summer before Isaiah married her. She turned to John and quickly tried to move the conversation away from Shawn’s absence. That’s a mighty big rock you put on Elaine’s finger. If it weren’t for the fact that you have wonderful taste in diamonds, I might still be annoyed with the fact that you took my sister off to Mexico and married her without any family to witness it.
Believe me; I would have preferred to marry Elaine in front of a thousand witnesses. But it took her so long to agree to marry me that I didn’t want to wait another minute.
Elaine patted her husband’s hand. It’s my fault, Dee Dee. I was so happy to be in remission, all I could think about was marrying the man I love. But I promise you, we will renew our vows in twenty years… and you my dear sister will be my bridesmaid.
Ok, just as long as I get to pick out my own dress. I wouldn’t be caught dead in the god awful dresses some of my friends have been forced to wear.
The group laughed, because they all knew that Dee Dee meant what she said. Isaiah nudged his big brother, Eric. "Why didn’t Linda come with you?
Eric averted his eyes. She’s not feeling well.
Dee Dee turned to Eric as if she had been invited into the conversation and said, You really need to get her some help before she ruins your chance of becoming the next governor of Ohio.
And you really need to mind your own business,
Eric said with venom in his voice.
Isaiah held up his hands. I wasn’t trying to get an argument started. Can we please switch topics?
Then Shawn Morrison walked into the dining room and Isaiah, the peacemaker, found that he was ready to rumble.
***
An eviction notice was taped to Ramona Verse’s door when she got home after a series of disappointing events designed to break the resolve of a weaker woman. But even after depositing her unemployment check and discovering that her bank balance was still in the negative to the tune of one hundred and thirty one dollars… and even after lowering her standards by stepping into a cash advance establishment and borrowing five hundred dollars to cover bank fees and pay her electric bill, she was still short and couldn’t come close to paying her rent.
Dwayne Verse was the cause of all her problems. He promised to love, honor and cherish her before God, his mama and a room full of folks who ate up all the shrimp, beef, penne noodles and cake they could get their hands on. So they could sure enough be considered witnesses to the crime committed against her foolish heart.
Why didn’t any of those people tell her that Dwayne needed a leash and a pooper scooper? After all, they were eating the food that her mother took out a loan to pay for. One of his relatives could have easily pulled her to the side and said, "Hey, I don’t mean to ruin your big day and all, but Dwayne is a thief and a cheater. You might want to make like the runaway bride