say amen again by reshonda tate billingsley

She was in their king-size bed, big belly and all, sitting on top of her husband, her hands gripped firmly around his neck. That was coming from somewhere else, someplace more real. “Hey, let me go! Rachel, what are you doing?”

Suddenly, Rachel forgot all about the pain shooting through her body. She couldn’t believe she was delivering this baby in the bed next to her, of all people. Unlike Rachel, Mary didn’t shoo him away. “Come on, Mary, you can do this.” He was gently coaxing the woman in the bed next to hers. “Breathe, baby, breathe,” Lester said sweetly. She looked over to the other bed in the hospital room. “Lester,” she said, reaching for her husband’s hand. But now, eleven years later, her body wasn’t cut out to deliver a baby with the same ease.Īnother scream filled the room. He was the reason she was in this position. “Shut up and get this baby out of me!” she yelled again. “Lester, I am breathing,” Rachel snapped, pushing him away. “Breathe, baby, breathe,” Lester-her husband of seven years-said as he leaned over and kissed her forehead. This baby had come too fast for a spinal, and Rachel needed something, because the pain was unbearable. She’d had an epidural on her other two kids. Granted, this was her third child, but the pain was like nothing she’d ever experienced. The scream started in Rachel’s gut and felt like it traveled up her lungs and out her mouth, piercing the whole room. Will the arrival of the new babies bring a new understanding? Or harden forever the anger that’s dividing them? Excerpt Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go, but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness. After all, where can an unmarried mother-to-be go but to the Lord? Her baby may or may not be Lester’s, but Mary’s doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachel-even threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity agreement.

The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding-and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.Īs the First Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adams’ wife-she’s currently his eight-months-pregnant wife, who’s going toe-to-toe with Lester’s onetime mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, who is also pregnant.

Say amen again by reshonda tate billingsley