john frederick (carry my bones -jwesyoder)

After she had driven off, John Frederick held his finger in front of his face. It quivered there like a candle, and he said, "Let me tell you something. Women, listen to me, are one of the two things in this world that has any power. You know what the other is? The Holy Spirit. That's right. And if one of them don't move you, you either sick or dead. That's what you been needing to know."


"Let me tell you something," he said and he took my wrist. "If a turnip grow, it's cause God told him to. And if a man die, it's cause God told him to go ahead and die. Aint that true? It is. No one chooses the time. Eben if you do it to yourself you're not choosing."