CHAPTER 19
No matter how hurried she felt, no matter how upset she was to be so late, Susannah had to drive slowly on account of the weather, which turned the Orchard Grove roads into nothing more than black sheets of ice.
Something Grandma Lucy had said at the end of her prayer time rang through Susannah’s mind like the clanging bells in the church’s Easter bell choir.
What God has opened, no man will shut.
It sounded so biblical. So true. How could God’s plans ever be thwarted?
But was there more to it than that? Of course, God had a plan for every believer’s life, but what about those people who lived in open rebellion to him? What about those people like Jonah who completely disobeyed? If Jonah hadn’t repented and returned to Nineveh, would God have destroyed the city right then?
