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- Herausgeber: Dove Christian Publishers
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
Timmy Dennison is a ten-year-old fifth-grader at Wynhope Elementary School. When twins Jeff and Jess Billings move into town, their lives quickly become entwined with Timmy and his activities.
Mistaken identity, false accusation, unfounded anticipation, new friends, forgiveness, and angels are all bound together in just a few weeks of Timmy’s young life.
Fortunately, Timmy’s family, including his Gram, who lives just three houses away on the same street, is there to foster his faith and trust in God. Memories of his recently deceased Gramp offer young Timmy comfort and guidance as he negotiates the trials and tribulations of everyday living.
Along the way, Timmy makes a couple of assumptions that result in some huge mistakes. Thankfully he learns to let God arrange and re-arrange the puzzle pieces of his life. Join him as he and a faithful God put into action Gramp’s favorite advice: “Ya gotta outmaneuver ‘em.”
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1: The New Kids
Chapter 2: The Scare
Chapter 3: Job's Lesson
Chapter 4: Forgiveness
Chapter 5: Mr. W. to the Rescue
Chapter 6: Gabriel
Chapter 7: Family Day
Chapter 8: Try-Outs
Chapter 9: God's Timing
Chapter 10: Resolution
Acknowledgments
YA GOTTA OUTMANUEVER ‘EM
A TIMMY DENNISON SHORT STORY
BY TOM BEAUDIN
Bladensburg, Maryland
YA GOTTA OUTMANUEVER ‘EM
Published by
Inscript Books
a division of Dove Christian Publishers
P.O. Box 611
Bladensburg, MD 20710-0611
www.dovechristianpublishers.com
Copyright © 2022 by Tom Beaudin
Cover Design by Barrie Lamothe
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced without permission of the publisher, except for brief quotes for scholarly use, reviews or articles.
Scriptures taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Names, characters, and places are products of the author’s imagination.
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To Marlene, Laura, Jason, and Adam:
Family - the gift that keeps on giving
Preface
As I write the preface to the third book in the Timmy series, we are in the midst of the 2021 Christmas season. I marvel at how, during this season, people transform into kinder, gentler versions of their rest-of-the-year selves. Christians and non-Christians alike look forward to, embrace, and bask in this annual celebration. The last Thanksgiving drumstick is yet to be consumed when Christmas decorations, accompanied by familiar Christmas melodies, miraculously appear in homes and shopping plazas across the land. Even the recent ubiquitous greeting, “Happy Holidays,” conjured up years ago to placate the PC crowd, is finding a backseat to the traditional “Merry Christmas.” After all, it is the birth of Christ that is being celebrated!
How does one account for this phenomenon? Two plausible explanations come to mind. The first revolves around the Christmas Advent wreath. Stemming from religious traditions dating back to the sixteenth century, the advent wreath is steeped in symbolism related to the birth of the Christ Child. Central in the symbolism are the five candles that are ceremoniously lighted on the four Sundays of Advent and on Christmas Eve; the first four candles represent hope, faith, joy, and peace. A fifth candle, sometimes called “the candle of love,” is the Christ candle and is lighted on Christmas Eve. In a less-than-perfect world, I suspect any honest person would admit to having feelings or thoughts at one time or another of hope, faith, joy, peace, and love. To have those emotions boldly presented as a group at a given time in the calendar year offers an internal and an external excitement unseen at any other time of the year.
There is a second and perhaps more meaningful explanation for the appeal of the Christmas Season. Likely more subtle, but no less significant than the first, is the anticipation of social gatherings and, more importantly, family events wrapped up in the giving, receiving, and celebrating of the season. The concept of family dates back as far as Adam and Eve. Some would even submit that the perfect relationships within the triune Godhead suggest family perfection. The Christmas Season, in so many ways, revolves around family. First and foremost, we celebrate that little family of Mary, Joseph, and their Newborn Son, who would become the Promise of Salvation for mankind. But in a less religious sense, for many, family provides the major excitement of the season as gatherings of folks from near and far provide occasions to share memories, gifts, and updates when young and old unite with loved ones. For those without blood family or those with broken family ties, there are a variety of social and “replacement” families more than willing to fill the void. Welcoming church families, work and business families, twelve-step families, etc., sponsor and promote special events that foster the unique sense of family.
Sadly, recent years have seen the deterioration of the American “nuclear family.” With that deterioration, we’ve experienced a loss of one of the critical building blocks necessary for a flourishing society. A strong and stable family provides for the physical and emotional needs of developing children. Religion and spirituality, as well as mutual dependence, love, trust, protection, independence, respect, and self-worth, are but some of the human needs fulfilled by a strong family unit.
