The Jones Family Chronicles

The Better Feeling


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School is out, the days are long, and Mom has enrolled all four sisters in a summer art workshop at the community center — three mornings a week, brushes and color and something to do with the hours. It is a good plan right up until the Wednesday the instructor holds up Ava Grace’s painting as the example for the whole class. Not Allison’s careful, methodical piece. Not Addison’s composed and intentional one. Not Ana’s bold, full-color expression. Five-year-old Ava Grace’s. Each older sister carries something home that afternoon that she didn’t have when the morning started — something small and sharp and not entirely comfortable to look at directly. When Dad opens Proverbs and First Corinthians at the table that evening, the Jones family discovers that envy is never really about what someone else received. And in the warm close of a summer evening, news arrives about Brother Thompson and Sister Beverly that reminds every person in the room what it looks like when love gets it right.

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The Jones Family ChroniclesBy Robert Johnson

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