“My dad always quotes this scripture. It’s always his answer when he doesn’t understand something. I’ve heard it so often in my life, it’s become kind of like a mantra,” Fern said. “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” “What does that even mean, Fern?” Ambrose sighed, but his fervor had dimmed.
