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Small boats—and the thought of drowning, terrify me. This
fear paralyzed me and caused me to miss out on numerous things—until God helped
me see the bigger picture.
We went to Peru on a mission trip with my church. We arrive
at a collection of tiny structures in the middle of nowhere, providing food and
supplies for weary travelers. We slip, slide, and scramble down a muddy bank to
the water’s edge where our sailing craft awaits. I look upstream. Nothing but a
couple of canoes. I look downstream. A metal boat about ten feet long, its
canvas covering long rotted—a tiny outboard putt-putting to life under the
tentative ministrations of a teenage boy.
My hubby helps me clamber in, and I sit in the middle of the
middle seat, clinging to the edges of the warped board. The rest of the team is
chatting, laughing, leaning against the side, ignoring me, for which I’m
thankful. I think, “Okay, God, I can do this. I just have to do this one more
time, on Sunday, when we leave.”
I ask about crocodiles, and they laugh and say there aren’t
any. Phew! “But keep your hands out of the water,” somebody says. “There are
piranha.”
Oh, nice.
When will this be over?
Then the Lord showed me the riverbanks, which in some places
looked like sculpted sand. He reminded me that the river didn’t carve these
banks, because although we’re at the headwaters of the Amazon, the water is
slow-moving.
God pointed out the wake of the boat nudging up against the
riverbank, and told me that the hundreds of boats that ply these waters daily
made the contours in the riverbank.
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In Risk Management, Carly learns that her life makes a
difference. She must make decisions about a future she doesn’t want. And while
the Peru connection isn’t where we find her, it, too, makes a difference.
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About Leeann:
Leeann Betts writes contemporary romantic suspense, while
her real-life persona, Donna Schlachter, pens historical romantic suspense. Risk
Management is the 12th and final story in her cozy mystery series, “By the
Numbers”. Watch for a segue novella in September that weaves Carly’s story with
the upcoming new cozy mystery series, “Mysterious Ink Bookstore Mysteries”, with
its first title releasing in December 2020. Together she and Donna have
published more than 30 novellas, devotionals, and full-length novels. They
ghostwrite, judge writing contests, edit, facilitate a critique group, and are
members of American Christian Fiction Writers, Writers on the Rock, Christian
Authors Network, Pikes Peak Writers, and Sisters in Crime. Leeann travels
extensively to research her stories, and is proud to be represented by Terrie
Wolf of AKA Literary LLC.
Website: www.LeeannBetts.com
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