About Keeping The Watch: Caretaking The Hidden Value Of A Family Heirloom by Patrick E. Blau
The origins of one family’s heirloom were shrouded in mystery. The reason and meaning behind its passing from generation to generation in a specific manner were lost to the years. Why and how it was found in the possession of one man two years before his death was unknown to anyone.
Until now.
A family was being separated through the decision of one of Jacob Blau’s sons, Nicolaus, who planned on taking his wife and children across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in Camp Springs, Kentucky. Jacob prayed that one day God would provide a means of guiding his son’s family to return home. He asked for his family to be given a token which would plainly show the way to those who came after him.
God was listening.
Follow the trail of an heirloom as it travels with five generations of Blau sons, revealing its hidden value to those who choose to look for it. Through various tribulations, tests of character, losses and victories the watch was kept by each generation in its turn. How well it was kept is up for your interpretation.
Understand, though, that it’s not the watch itself that matters. It’s ‘keeping’ the watch that counts.
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Author Bio:
Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, I spent my first forty-six years living in that area. After vacationing twice in southern France, I had made the decision to move to France just before I met my now wife, Sarah. Some people would call it luck, but I know better than that. God brought Sarah and I together to make each other’s acquaintance at the right moment, and He took it from there. With our willing participation, of course!
Currently and for the foreseeable future we live in France, in a small village named Saint-Paul. It’s a good stones throw away from the Neste river, nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, about a half hour from the border of Spain as the crow flies. The bells of the church here in Saint-Paul still ring every hour, on the hour, with one sound of the bell every half hour. I find that I appreciate that more as time goes on.
There has always been a simmering notion in the corners of my brain to begin a book of some sort, and during the virus lockdowns I finally took the initiative to make it a reality, just like throngs of other people all over the world, I’m sure. I find ideas for storylines are best realized when I’m mowing grass on my riding mower. Just seems to work best that way for me. This book has an important message in it for everyone, as long as you have eyes to see and ears to hear. And it will be that way for any future book that I may be led to create, too.
This book was a project that I undertook out of love, and out of gratitude. The ‘rank’ it has and will have for sales or for popularity mean very, very little to me, as I hope it’s the same for you. I don’t wish to be rich, and this book will perhaps never make me so. And that’s okay! Because God and I have a deal. For many years now there have been two things that I have asked of Him, and He has been faithful in:
‘Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion; That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God.’
May God bless you and yours, and thank you for reading!