Hannah’s Honest Heart, Part 1 of 3

The tiny country home, once so full of Christian love, stood empty now, except for a few pieces of worn-out furniture. Homer and Hazel Hartley were its occupants for almost sixty years. Their graves lay beside each other in a nearby cemetery; their souls were in Heaven. Their only child, Hannah, now noted heart surgeon Hannah Hartley, M.D., was sorting through a box containing childhood memorabilia when she discovered a blue purse with an envelope inside. Beneath a sketch of Santa Claus in a toy-filled, reindeer-drawn sleigh on a rooftop were the words “Christmas 1955.”