Lana'S Choices

Norma Treptow

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Lana is one who faced choices from childhood right on through time as she became aged. She faced the loss of a child, the loss of what would have been a generous inheritance, and triumph through Gods intervention in her life.Everyone has to make choicesfrom the moment of rising in the morning to the hour of settling in at night. Some choices are very difficult, while many result in great joy. The choices Lana made throughout her lifetime are encouragement for others who must make choices in their lives. Lanas choices may not always have been right, and you may think you would have chosen differently. But as you read this story, note how God weaves in and out of life according to our choices.

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• Publié par: Inspiring Voices
• Date de parution: 21 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781462406203
• Langue: English

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Lana’s Choices
 
 
 
A Novel Based on a True Story
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Norma Treptow
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
Copyright © 2013 Norma Treptow.
 
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Cover designed by Don Kain
Edited by Elizabeth Kain
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0621-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0620-3 (e)
 
 
Inspiring Voices rev. date: 05/07/2013
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Chapters
 
1.Harry & Luvy
2.Harry’s Choices
3.Children Who Date
4.Choice of Family Size
5.Spiritual Life
6.Unexpected Life Interventions & Choices
7.Family Lifestyle Choices
8.Adoption/Family Addition
9.Reflections
10.Financial Choices
11.A New Direction
12.More new directions
13.New Opportunities, New Choices
14.Another New Opportunity, Another Choice
15.Another Choice
Dedication
This book is dedicated to our children, and our deceased parents. With out them there would be no story.
Throughout life there are always daily choices to make. We choose to get out of bed in the morning, choose what to wear and what we’ll do that day. I dedicate my life’s circumstances to this story of choices day by day and year by year.
I dedicate the book to all the people that came into the story to make it what it is. This experience was of the power of God in a life that was full of challenging choices.
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to my husband, who encouraged me to keep on writing. For years it was just a dream but now I realize why it took me 10 years to write this book, my life had not been completed enough until now.
I acknowledge our nephew Don Kain who designed the cover of this book.
I also thank Lucas Schuster, who took the time out of his busy life to help me with computer skills that I had not yet accomplished. Also thanks to Rick Broderick who helped me with computer skills as well.
I thank my son, Joel for helping me with computer skills, rebuilding it when it crashed right in the middle of the creation of Lana’s Choices.
Introduction
M any times friends have told me that I need to write a story about my life, though didn’t shipwreck at sea, or witness a bank robbery or any fantastic thing like you hear or read about in the media, my life did require choices that caused me call out to God and cry for help or wisdom but sometimes God’s wisdom wasn’t even given much thought and choices were made out of personal desires, and were not God’s choice, perhaps but what is amazing to me is how God can call someone to serve Him and we choose not to obey the call, but instead to do the thing you think could serve you best, which is your hearts’ desire, yet God has a way to allow events in one’s life by weaving opportunities and events throughout a lifetime so He does get His way and you get yours as well. Such a loving God He is and how amazing!
This book is meant to encourage the reader that mistakes are not the end. God can take a life and keep it maintained if one is willing to believe in Him and all names in the story have been changed.
CHAPTER ONE

Harry & Luvy
I t was January, 1936 and a typical Minnesota snowstorm had adorned the homestead and surrounding fields with a thick, smooth blanket of snow concealing everything but the top parts of the buildings. The few fox pens and 4’ x 5’ boxes the foxes went into was completely covered with snow. The downstairs windows on the house were snow covered. How did people get out of their homes when it was like, this you would wonder. You could see a narrow path that Harry had shoveled to the barn and the other out buildings and animal cages. There were no snow plows or tractors with snow blowers, so folks just stayed put for days or weeks at a time while shoveling each day to get themselves out so, eventually they could attempt to get out with their own car.
There was no running to the store for food during those times and it was common knowledge to folks that they needed to plan ahead and store the basic supplies then feast on the canned harvest of autumn and most folks had a cow and chickens in the barn for milk and eggs.
Out of the blanketed silence came a man bundled up, riding a horse up the long driveway. He appeared from the farmstead next door where the owner could lend him a horse to ride the rest of the way since their driveway was close to the main road and the contraption of a revised road grader, driven by an experienced operator, was able to plow the road from Allentown, which was seven miles away so Luvy and Harry’s family Doctor could make his way to their house where Luvy lay in labor awaiting the birth of their first child.
Dr Ben, with his bag tied to the saddle, gently encouraged the horse to hurry even though the animal was stomping in snow up to his belly and the vapors coming from the horse’s nostrils demonstrated that galloping was hard labor for him but the doctor knew he needed to get there to be on hand to guide Luvy through the delivery process of her first baby and from experience, he knew she would be progressing in her labor and felt the urgency to be there for this woman’s first time to give birth of a baby.
Harry and Luvy were a young couple who had been married three years, living on love and hard work which was the norm for them and other newly wed couple their age during the early nineteen thirties at when the great depression for America was happening. Harry and Luvy had heard on their radio about the stock market crash and how some investors had committed suicide because of their losses but that didn’t seem to affect them because the European ways and techniques of their immigrated parents had been passed down and taught them life lessons about self-sufficiency and independence with out wealth so to them, wealth had another meaning. It meant depending on each other, finding a place to live and raise a family, paying the doctor for services that might mean giving him milk, eggs, and meat that equaled the balance of the medical bill.
In Harry and Luvy’s home, there was no indoor plumbing which meant there was no indoor bathroom, so there was a water pail that required refilling through out the day, but there was electricity , and a light bulb hung on a wire over the round oak table that Luvy and Harry had received from Luvy’s uncle for a wedding gift.
They were grateful for that table and the electric light above it and the luxury of a radio. Luvy loved the wooden round table because she thought it dressed up the décor of the room and made the wood floor look better in the small kitchen. She and her sisters had painted the floors a hi-gloss grey which made the floors look shiny and that was very important to Luvy because she was an excellent housekeeper and loved decorating it to look as attractive as possible. There was an ivory-colored cookstove that heated the whole house—upstairs and downstairs with plenty of wood placed near the cookstove which Harry had brought in for fuel.
Harry had begun to prepare himself mentally about things he may have to do for Luvy if the baby came before doctor Ben arrived—if he arrived at all, because there seemed to be no life outside after the measurable snow fall, followed by high winds but he was so very grateful that the phone line was still working when he cranked the handle on the side of it to ask the operator to call the doctor to ask him what he could do or ask if he could possibly come because his wife had been in labor for several hours already.
Harry had never been around any births except for a cow once, when as a boy he watched his father assist the cow to deliver her calf and he remembered there would be a cord to cut and in his farm trained mind, he questioned if women were like cows in birthing, but he knew one thing from being around animals, cows or horses didn’t make the sounds such as what was coming from his miserable, frantic wife and he felt helpless not knowing what to say or how to help her and it seemed that her pain was becoming so intense that she was moaning more and louder and he was seriously thinking he would have to do something now.
Then he suddenly heard someone stomping off snow out on the porch of the house and saw what looked like a woodsman or mountain man covered with the fluffy white snow that had accumulated on his clothes from the horses hooves that caused movement of snow clouds around him. The doctor entered the house, immediately hearing the familiar sounds of a woman who was near her time to give birth, and seeing the anxious, worried eyes of the young m