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The Providence
The Story of the Young Rich Ruler
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The Young Rich Ruler, reimagined
The Providence
The Story of the Young Rich Ruler
He built a life to protect the people he loved. Then Jesus asked him to let go.
The Providence imagines the life behind the Young Rich Ruler, a story of ambition, responsibility, and the difficult freedom of trust.
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6 selected stories
WISDOM
Asheville, North Carolina
An Asheville master carpenter knows how to make things hold. His adult daughter’s future calls for a different kind of judgment, as he discovers the limits of a father’s skill when someone else must choose.
COURAGE
Greenville, South Carolina
A construction professional in Greenville discovers a serious safety problem. Speaking could protect people she has never met while threatening her livelihood and the business she built with her brother. Silence carries its own responsibility.
MERCY
Savannah, Georgia
Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her. Making room for a second chance will mean deciding what trust can ask.
PEACE
Abingdon, Virginia
In Abingdon, a daughter inherits her father’s unfinished property dispute. A workshop, a blocked gate, and old wounds draw her into a question of loyalty: how much of another person’s fight should become her own?
FAITH
Bellevue, Idaho
After repeated pregnancy loss, Hannah begins opening her table to other people in Bellevue, Idaho. Offering them a place in her life may mean accepting something harder for her: care she cannot arrange or control.
JOY
Thomasville, Georgia
A Thomasville dressmaker is asked to finish the wedding gown she began for her late son’s fiancée, now marrying someone else. The work brings grief and affection together, asking whether celebration can leave room for remembrance.
PATIENCE
Oxford, Mississippi
An accomplished Oxford mechanic has spent decades hiding his difficulty with reading. Becoming a beginner will ask him to accept help without surrendering the dignity and competence he has earned across the rest of his life.
GRACE
Bismarck, North Dakota
A Bismarck diner owner has always known how to care for everyone else. When an injury makes her the one who needs help, accepting love becomes unfamiliar work, especially when she cannot immediately repay it.
HOPE
Summersville, West Virginia
A wildfire takes a family’s home and workshop in Summersville, West Virginia. As they begin again, rebuilding becomes more than practical work: it asks which parts of their old life they can carry into a different future.
HUMILITY
Columbia, Kentucky
A respected retired band director in Columbia, Kentucky, returns to a world of music and traditions he helped shape. Finding his place now means allowing another person to lead without treating change as an erasure.
FAITHFULNESS
Atlanta, Texas
While preparing to sell her Atlanta, Texas, repair shop, Nadine finds an unfinished work order in her late husband’s handwriting. Keeping a promise will require judgment about what she owes, what can change, and when to leave.
GENTLENESS
Buffalo, Wyoming
When his son and granddaughter come to stay on his Wyoming ranch, Sam offers work, advice, and a patient horse. Their needs ask something less familiar of him: the strength to hear no without withdrawing his care.
TRUTH
Fairhope, Alabama
A newspaper editor in Fairhope discovers that her late father’s public record needs correcting. Honoring the man she loved and meeting her responsibility to the truth may require choices that cannot protect every reputation.
KINDNESS
Stillwater, Oklahoma
A retired school secretary in Stillwater has spent years offering quiet help. When a former student becomes a giver himself, she must consider whether generosity can keep doing good beyond the reach of her own plans.
SELF CONTROL
Loogootee, Indiana
An Indiana barber believes he is defending his granddaughter when he explains her troubles on the basketball court. As his version travels, he must face what he did not know and learn to listen before speaking.
LOVE
Nashville, Tennessee
In Nashville, two friends find their loyalty tested by musical ambition, family pressure, and questions of creative ownership. Staying beside each other will require more than shared history when telling the truth carries a cost.
COURAGE
Greenville, South Carolina
A construction professional in Greenville discovers a serious safety problem.
MERCY
Savannah, Georgia
Nearly twenty years after her sister took family money and disappeared, Vivian sees her return to the Savannah restaurant she built without her.
JOY
Thomasville, Georgia
A Thomasville dressmaker is asked to finish the wedding gown she began for her late son’s fiancée, now marrying someone else.
FAITH
Bellevue, Idaho
After repeated pregnancy loss, Hannah begins opening her table to other people in Bellevue, Idaho.
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