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The Faith Beneath the Dust: A spiritual Journey
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ISBN13: 9798191325187
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the heart of 1950s Kansas, one family's faith is tested by drought, loss, and the relentless march of progress.
Martha Mae Jenkins has spent seventy-two years seeing God in the ordinary miracles of farm life: rain on dry soil, sunlight over the pond, neighbors gathered for baptism, and seed taking root beneath her hands. But when a brutal drought settles over the Jenkins farm, the land she loves begins to crack-and so does the certainty she has carried all her life.
Martha Mae Jenkins has spent seventy-two years seeing God in the ordinary miracles of farm life: rain on dry soil, sunlight over the pond, neighbors gathered for baptism, and seed taking root beneath her hands. But when a brutal drought settles over the Jenkins farm, the land she loves begins to crack-and so does the certainty she has carried all her life.
As crops fail, wells run dry, cattle are sold, and tragedy reaches into the homes of their closest neighbors, Martha Mae struggles to hold her family together. Her son Thomas fights to save the farm from debt. Her daughter-in-law Elizabeth tries to keep hope alive inside a house worn thin by fear. And her grandson David, armed with science, soil maps, and questions no one wants to answer, begins to wonder whether faith can survive in a world ruled by weather, law, and loss.
Then the State Highway Commission marks a road straight through the Jenkins legacy-threatening the pond where generations were baptized, the fields that fed them, and the quiet grave of a child Martha Mae never stopped mourning.
What follows is not a story of easy miracles. It is a deeply moving portrait of a family forced to discover that faith is not the absence of doubt, and grace does not always arrive as rescue. Sometimes it comes as a neighbor's hand, a shovel in the mud, a shared meal, a hard truth spoken aloud, and the courage to stand together when everything familiar is being taken away.
Tender, atmospheric, and rich with spiritual depth, The Faith Beneath the Dust is a historical Christian family drama about grief, resilience, community, and the kind of faith that remains when the easy answers are gone.
For readers who enjoy heartfelt generational stories, rural historical fiction, Christian literary fiction, and novels about family, land, loss, and enduring grace.
Then the State Highway Commission marks a road straight through the Jenkins legacy-threatening the pond where generations were baptized, the fields that fed them, and the quiet grave of a child Martha Mae never stopped mourning.
What follows is not a story of easy miracles. It is a deeply moving portrait of a family forced to discover that faith is not the absence of doubt, and grace does not always arrive as rescue. Sometimes it comes as a neighbor's hand, a shovel in the mud, a shared meal, a hard truth spoken aloud, and the courage to stand together when everything familiar is being taken away.
Tender, atmospheric, and rich with spiritual depth, The Faith Beneath the Dust is a historical Christian family drama about grief, resilience, community, and the kind of faith that remains when the easy answers are gone.
For readers who enjoy heartfelt generational stories, rural historical fiction, Christian literary fiction, and novels about family, land, loss, and enduring grace.
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