Arms of Love

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Authors: Kelly Long

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Arms of Love

 

Also by Kelly Long

 

The Patch of Heaven series

 

Sarah’s Garden
Lilly’s Wedding Quilt

 

Novellas found in
An Amish Christmas
An Amish Love
An Amish Wedding

 

 

Arms of Love

 

Kelly Long

 

© 2012 by Kelly Long

 

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

 

Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

 

Thomas Nelson, Inc., titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected].

 

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible, and from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE
®
, © The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission.

 

Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Long, Kelly.
   Arms of love / Kelly Long.
     p. cm. — (Arms of love; 1)
  ISBN 978-1-4016-8496-9 (trade paper)
  1. Amish—Fiction. I. Title.
    PS3612.O497A89 2012
    813'.6—dc23

 

2011051153

 

Printed in the United States of America

 

12 13 14 15 16 QG 5 4 3 2 1

 

For Dad and Gil
And for Ward

 

Contents

 

Glossary

 

Author’s Note

 

Chapter 1

 

Chapter 2

 

Chapter 3

 

Chapter 4

 

Chapter 5

 

Chapter 6

 

Chapter 7

 

Chapter 8

 

Chapter 9

 

Chapter 10

 

Chapter 11

 

Chapter 12

 

Chapter 13

 

Chapter 14

 

Chapter 15

 

Chapter 16

 

Chapter 17

 

Chapter 18

 

Chapter 19

 

Chapter 20

 

Chapter 21

 

Chapter 22

 

Chapter 23

 

Chapter 24

 

Chapter 25

 

Chapter 26

 

Chapter 27

 

Chapter 28

 

Chapter 29

 

Chapter 30

 

Chapter 31

 

Chapter 32

 

Chapter 33

 

Chapter 34

 

Chapter 35

 

Chapter 36

 

Chapter 37

 

Chapter 38

 

Chapter 39

 

Chapter 40

 

Chapter 41

 

Chapter 42

 

Chapter 43

 

Reading Group Guide

 

Acknowledgments

 

A Novel Bible Study on The Arms of Love written by the author

 

Week One—The Past

 

Week Two—God Is for You

 

Week Three—God’s Arms of Love

 

Week Four—Freedom

 

Glossary

 

ach
– oh

broomaing
– roaring

bruder
– brother

buwe
– boy

daed
– dad

danki
– thank you

Derr Herr
– the Lord

dobbelstein
– fine checked fabric

dochder
– daughter

Englisch
– not Amish

fater
– father

fees wesha
– foot washing

freeda
– peace

gens
– geese

glaws
– glass

gorda
– garden

Gott
– God

grossmuder
– grandmother

gut
– good

hartz
– heart

hausfrau
– housewife

herr
– sir

kesselhous
– baking house

kinner
– children

knepp
– traditional Amish fare

kraut
– cabbage

kumme
– come

mamm
– mother

mawd
– maid

mei
– my

messer
– knife

milch
– milk

narrish
– crazy

nee
– no

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