The Breakthrough (28 page)

Everyone clapped and cheered, and Max raised both fists and said, “You’re havin’ a baby! Yes! A boy or a girl?”

“We don’t know yet, honey,” Haeley said. “But you’ll be the first person we tell.”

Jack Keller cleared his throat. “I’d like to say something, if you don’t mind. Pastor Sosa sent me a verse—as he likes to do—in the middle of all this, ah, stuff, and I memorized it. It goes, ‘You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.’ Well, I’m doing that. With all my heart.”

Pastor Sosa said, “He keeps his promises, Jack, so watch out. Now can I give you all one more verse?”

“Nobody better say no,” Florence said.

“Ephesians 3:20 and 21,” he said. “‘Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.’”