Lola and Robert lay in bed, far apart. It was their 10th wedding anniversary, and they weren’t talking to each other. The predicament was inevitable, given the pattern established from the beginning of their marriage.
They married in California and moved to Oklahoma for graduate school three weeks after the ceremony. There was a small Adventist congregation in the university town where they settled. The members welcomed them with open hearts and immediately involved them in the nominated them to church offices.