Apple Blossom Orchard

For the young and the young at heart

De: Susan Bateman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Six-year-old Apple Blossom Orchard runs through the Louisana swamps and makes her home in the grasses and trees she sees. Living in a make-believe world, Blossom finds an old railroad car and turns it into the castle she has always wanted. A princess who reigns, a little girl who is lost, neglected by the woman she believes is her mother.

Her castle is where she stays and sleeps until waking one morning and finding her castle is moving. How? She is unsure? Why? She doesn't really know, but in her heart she knows that a great adventure awaits her. Momma won't miss her she says to her imagination.

Days and weeks on the rails she meets friends and foes. Then her castle lands and she finds what she has been singing about all along. He's got the whole world in His hands.

Sweet child. Sweet courage. Sweet faith. Heart-warming outcome: it's an encouraging story.

The child appealed to me because she was much like my decent siblings and I.
An unspoiled child of irresponsible alcoholic parent(s). Even after she is taken carevof, she assumes that her clothing will be second-hand. Also growing up shockingly poor (even eating lead because of a nutritional deficiency) I too developed an extremely fertile imagination to survive.
Perhaps listening to this might help in healing of adult children who may have grown up bitter?
Even though it's unlikely that a 5 year old could ever spend two years years on her own before intervention, such rare instances of children surviving on their own, and even supplying and raising their younger siblings DOES happen when survival forces us to provide for ourselves and others.
And the emphasis on faith impressed and blessed me.
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