title: Hope in My Heart: A Collection of Heartwarming Stories
author:  Alexis A. Goring 
description: Alexis A. Goring is a college graduate with a degree in print journalism from Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. Writing is her passion. She hopes that her stories will touch hearts, bring smiles to faces, and inspire minds to seek God whose love for humanity is unfailing.
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  WHAT THE HEART SEES
  
  A Short Story
  
  By Marsha Canham
  
  ISBN 978-0-9877023-6-4
  
  Copyright Marsha Canham, 2011,
  
  This short story originally appeared in the anthology Masters of Seduction.
  The story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  either products of the author’s imaginations or used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be
  reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
  mechanical, without permission in writing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  With love, for Kathleen Givens, gone too soon.
  
  Think where glory most begins and ends,
  
  And say my glory was I had such friends.
  
  ~William Butler Yeats
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  Lincolnshire, England
  
  1193
  
  “Archers up!”
  
  The cry went from man to man along the castle battlements. The foresters
  roused themselves from a weary doze and scrubbed their eyes with fists. Most
  were hooded 