Greta Anne Smith

July 26, 2018 AD

A Door That Barely Opened

The last stop on Greta's Thursday round is the one the schedule can't prepare her for. She and Evelyn arrive at the Mallory house with a hand-sewn dress wrapped in tissue and tied with white ribbon — hours of quiet labour folded into an offering meant to make a girl feel seen. The door barely opens. Shayna's mother stands blank-eyed and unreachable. Shayna herself appears at the edge of the hallway like a breath, then vanishes without a word. But it's what Greta glimpses in that brief moment — a shadow beneath a shifting sleeve — that follows her back to the car and refuses to leave. In the stillness afterwards, with the lemon from Sister Trenerry rolling gently in the cupholder, Greta confronts the gap between what kindness can offer and what some situations demand.

July 27, 2018 AD

A Message, Not A Voice

As unanswered calls feed Greta’s rising dread, she turns to Luke for answers about Paul’s disappearance. What follows is a digital exchange that offers unexpected clarity—and a new kind of unease—as Greta discovers that sometimes the truth doesn’t come as a voice, but as a silence broken too neatly.

July 27, 2018 AD

A Post-It and a Prayer

A phone rings in Greta Smith's kitchen and shatters the only quiet moment she's had all week. On the other end, Officer Felicity Massey — freshly transferred to Broken Hill and already tangled in something she doesn't fully understand — is trying to find Paul. Greta's hostility masks her terror. Felicity's careful notes mask her doubt. The call drops before either woman gets what she needs, and what follows for Felicity is a chorus of voices all saying the same thing.

July 26, 2018 AD

A Slightly Sticky Blessing

Greta and Evelyn’s visit to Melanie Henderson’s bustling home tests the limits of timetables, tidiness, and cocoa tolerance. Amid magnetic fridge theology and cheerful disorder, Greta grapples with how grace can thrive—even flourish—where order dares not tread.

July 29, 2018 AD

And We Entered Together

Greta and Noah arrive at the Adelaide Temple, hearts full of reverence and wonder, only to find a sacred order gently rewritten. As tradition gives way to revelation, they are invited to face eternity not in silence and separation—but side by side. In the hush of marble halls and white-robed stillness, a quiet revolution unfolds.

July 27, 2018 AD

Before the Kettle Boils

As dawn slips into motion, Greta moves through the fragile rituals of family life—waking sons, making tea, laying out hope in scripture and toast. But beneath the surface of routine lies an ache for connection she can no longer summon by force, and a silence in the kitchen that asks questions no prayer quite answers.

July 29, 2018 AD

Beyond the Ordinary Path

The Bishop's office door closes behind them. The corridor is the same grey carpet, the same crooked noticeboard — but everything has changed. Inside that room, Noah read a letter aloud from the Area President summoning selected members to a confidential gathering at the Adelaide Temple tonight. No explanation. No disclosed purpose. Just a calling wrapped in secrecy and the weight of divine instruction. Greta and Noah step back into the ordinary Sunday afternoon carrying something extraordinary between them, and the shape of the day bends around it.

July 25, 2018 AD

Butter to the Edges

The accusations from an earlier phone call still sit heavy in the quiet of the house, but Greta does what she has always done — she cooks. Pumpkin soup with rosemary tucked like a secret beneath the wedges. Toasties pressed to golden crispness. Her mother's rhubarb crumble, following a recipe card yellowed with decades of flour-dusted hands. Every gesture is devotion disguised as routine, every adjusted placemat a small act of defiance against a day that has offered no answers. The table is set. The food is ready. Whether anyone will come is another matter entirely.

Episode 012: The Thursday Ministry

A woman is sitting in an ageing Toyota Corolla in an Adelaide suburb at half past nine on a Thursday morning in July. The engine is running. The heater is trying. Her breath is fogging the windscreen in pale, anxious plumes. In her handbag — brown leather, fraying at the corners, stubborn clasp — there is a laminated A4 sheet. Typed the night before. Double-checked. Cross-referenced. Laminated. It is titled "Greta Smith's Official Thursday Visiting Schedule." It is colour-coded. That's the moment.

July 26, 2018 AD

Even the Bruised Things

As Evelyn returns home and Greta navigates the final quiet stretch of the day, reflections linger heavier than errands. Yet in the silence and small softness of ordinary things, Greta finds the faintest trace of comfort—the kind that comes not in answers, but in bruised fruit and the promise it still might hold something good.

August 1, 2018 AD

Follow Thou Me

A confrontation born of frustration draws Greta into a revelation that reshapes her reality. As Luke speaks of portals and promise, and Noah takes her hand in quiet conviction, Greta is asked not just to believe—but to follow. What begins in the study ends beyond it, in colour and calling, with the ache of doubt flickering at the edges of a light too divine to resist.

July 25, 2018 AD

Greta and the Queen

The house has emptied. Jerome is at basketball, Noah behind the wheel, Charles sealed in his room, and Greta is left in the cooling kitchen with only Millie for company. She moves through the clearing-up with the muscle memory of decades — bowls stacked, crumbs swept, the table wiped in slow circles — but each familiar gesture lands differently tonight, with Claire's accusations still turning beneath the surface and Paul's silence growing louder by the hour. Millie watches from the kitchen threshold with the patience of a creature who has decided exactly how this evening will end. She is right.

July 27, 2018 AD

Interrupted Grace

What begins as a rare moment of stillness quickly spirals into a morning of rising dread, as Greta’s long-awaited tea is interrupted by a call from the Broken Hill police. With every clipped word and dropped connection, she’s pulled deeper into uncertainty—where irritation gives way to fear, and the calm she craved is replaced by a fragile prayer for strength.

August 1, 2018 AD

Just a Little Bit

In the grey hush before dawn, a standoff over cold leftovers erupts into a storm of maternal fury and adolescent defiance. As Greta wrestles with Charles’s irreverence and her own unravelling restraint, deeper fears stir beneath the surface—about the son who’s missing, the son slipping away, and the sacred call that demands strength she isn’t sure she has.

July 29, 2018 AD

Knots and Nonsense

As the Smith household stirs into its Sunday rhythm, Greta finds herself navigating a symphony of noise, nostalgia, and barely-dodged sibling landmines. Amid the commotion, she witnesses Jerome’s quiet becoming and Charles’s chaotic charm—and recognises, in the glorious imperfection of it all, the quiet triumph of a family holding shape.

July 30, 2018 AD

Lois and the Deep

Greta Smith walks to the lagoon with a borrowed water bottle and a Golden Retriever she didn't ask for, expecting stillness — maybe even peace. What she finds instead is something ancient, alive, and waiting beneath the surface. The water offers visions designed to shatter her: her family turned monstrous, her temple in ruins, her God walking away without a backward glance. It nearly drowns her. Lois drags her back to the living. And then Greta runs — soaked, broken, desperate — because Charles is already here, and this place is no sanctuary.

July 27, 2018 AD

Ministry of Sugar

As the fire dwindles and the night settles, an unexpected delivery from her sons wraps Greta in the kind of rough-edged tenderness that only family can offer. In the quiet aftermath of heavier days, it's this simple act—half-mischief, half-care—that allows her to believe, just for a moment, that they’ll all be alright.

July 25, 2018 AD

More Than Bread and Salt

As soup steams and toasties crisp, Greta draws her family around the table for a meal served with quiet intention. But even under the glow of warm light and well-worn routine, tensions flicker—reminding her that presence isn’t the same as peace, and silence often says more than words.

August 1, 2018 AD

No Spires, No Promises

Luke returns to camp with the casual air of someone who hasn't just dismantled a family's life, and Greta Smith is in no mood to forgive the delay. When she asks where their house is, Paul delivers the truth in five words: what you see is what you get. No green lawn. No chapel. No ward. Just dust, tents, and a food storage room back on Earth that might be the only useful thing their obedience ever produced. Greta paces the camp in borrowed clothes, caught between fury and a faith too stubborn to die.

July 25, 2018 AD

Not in Adelaide

Claire calls Adelaide from her hospital bed, certain she'll find Paul at the other end of the line. What she finds instead is his mother — and a silence that dismantles everything she thought she knew. From a thousand kilometres away, Greta absorbs the accusations of a woman she's never met, biting back words that would only make things worse. The call ends without goodbye. Both women are left holding the same unanswered question — and the growing fear that no one knows where Paul is.

July 29, 2018 AD

One Step Enough for Me

Jerome breaks the bread with steady hands. Charles carries the tray to Greta's row and meets her eyes for one brief, loaded moment. Bishop Hahn speaks of enduring faith and his voice cracks when he says a divine calling awaits. Then, as the closing hymn fades, Brother Johnson appears at the edge of their pew with a quiet message: the Bishop would like to see Greta and Noah after the combined meeting. No explanation. No elaboration. Just a sentence that redraws the shape of the entire day.

July 29, 2018 AD

Pilgrims of the Ordinary

Pancakes sizzle in Noah's mother's cast-iron pan. A Skype call bridges the ocean to Lisa and Will's kitchen in Salt Lake City, where Eli is on sharp form and Jerome's careful tie selection becomes immediate ammunition. Charles mis-buttons his shirt with spectacular commitment. Millie mounts her weekly campaign to attend church and is, once again, denied. Greta moves through all of it — flipping, refereeing, redirecting — until the front door clicks shut and the car pulls away, and she begins the quiet transformation from kitchen apron to chapel pew.

August 1, 2018 AD

Pyjamas and Prophecy

Greta Smith stumbles through a shimmering Portal in her Jesus-print pyjamas and lands in a sunblasted wasteland that looks nothing like the sacred refuge she was promised. Paul is waiting. Luke is unapologetic. A woman named Karen is pushing a shopping trolley full of potting mix through the desert. And above the gates of the settlement called Bixbus, the severed head of some enormous beast grins down at new arrivals like a welcome mat designed by a lunatic. This is not the New Jerusalem. This is not even close.

July 25, 2018 AD

Queen Esther in Fur

As night deepens and the house falls still, Greta moves through the rituals of cleaning and coping, shadowed only by Millie’s quiet, patient presence. But beneath the domestic rhythm, unspoken fears persist—and it’s in the silent companionship of a dog that Greta finds her most honest reckoning.

July 25, 2018 AD

Reading the Weather

An evening dinner in Adelaide, seen through two pairs of eyes that are watching the same cracks form from opposite sides of the table. A mother reads the emotional weather of her family the way she always has — in untouched toasties, in the pink rising at the tips of a teenager's ears, in the silence that falls after a careless remark lands too hard. Her eldest son still at home reads the same room like tracking wildlife — subtle shifts, small tells, the instinct to intervene battling the knowledge that his timing is never quite right. The dinner holds together. Barely. And what follows it is lonelier for both of them.

July 27, 2018 AD

Relief That Arrived Too Neatly

There's something cruel about relief when it arrives by text—too quiet for the panic it replaces. Greta has been pacing her Adelaide lounge room for an hour, each unanswered call jabbing like a needle. Luke won't pick up. When he finally responds to her text, the words are simple, reassuring, exactly what a worried mother needs to hear. And something about them feels deeply, inexplicably wrong. The compass she uses to understand her family has started pointing somewhere unfamiliar.

July 26, 2018 AD

Rosemary and Glass

Greta has been avoiding this call all morning, filling the hours with visits and schedules and the comforting rhythm of routine. Claire has been on her knees in a ruined studio, scrubbing at stains that won't lift. When the phone finally connects them across fifteen hundred kilometres, what passes between them is beyond anything either woman's careful preparations can absorb. By the time the line goes dead, both are holding a silence that demands something neither of them is ready to give.

July 29, 2018 AD

Sacred Batter

As Sunday morning unfolds in familiar chaos and cinnamon-sweet warmth, Greta finds solace and meaning in the quiet ritual of pancake-making. Amid misaligned buttons, theatrical sons, and rising batter, she savours the stillness between the stir and the serve—a domestic liturgy that speaks louder than any sermon.

July 29, 2018 AD

Still Waters & Quiet Callings

As Greta and Evelyn settle into a Sunday meeting laced with gentle wisdom and unnoticed heroics, a simple comment—first from a young high priest, then from her own son—reaches places sermons seldom do. With Shayna absent and a calling looming, Greta must hold the ache of unanswered questions alongside the quiet beauty of being truly seen.

July 29, 2018 AD

Sunday Afternoon, Altered

The drive home from church feels different and Jerome can't say why. His parents' hands find each other on the centre console while Charles wages war over gluten-free cross-contamination. Dad holds a book he isn't reading. Mum disappears behind a closed door. Something happened in the Bishop's office, and the house is carrying it — not in noise, but in the particular quality of silence between two people who share a secret. Greta prepares herself for a gathering she can't explain. Jerome watches, and waits, and wonders what truth is about to surface.

July 29, 2018 AD

Sunday, Poured Slowly

In the hush of a rare quiet Sunday morning, Greta prepares hot chocolate with deliberate care, each step a quiet act of devotion. As she and Noah settle into the warmth of long-earned companionship, the stillness becomes its own kind of answer—proof that amidst the chaos, they have built something enduring.

July 31, 2018 AD

The Beginning of the Ache

Over an uneasy dinner table, Greta and Noah confront the unspoken grief that’s been quietly eroding the foundation of their home. As long-held fears about their children rise to the surface, what begins in silence unfolds into a reckoning neither of them can delay—where love and faith must wrestle with the terrifying possibility of loss.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Benediction Walk

As the Apostle moves through the room offering personal farewells, Greta finds herself held in a moment that transcends gesture—where eternal truths are spoken with quiet intimacy and ordinary hearts are marked with divine purpose. Hand in hand with Noah, she steps from sacred stillness into the weight—and wonder—of the covenant she now carries.

July 26, 2018 AD

The Call That Followed Me

Still reeling from a phone call that fractured more than the afternoon, Greta steels herself for the final visit of the day. But as she and Evelyn approach Shayna’s quiet home, Greta must contend with the realisation that the weight she carries can’t be tucked away—and that even the gentlest of offerings arrive marked by what came before.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Corridor and the Call

Greta and Noah are summoned to the bishop’s office for a meeting that begins in silence and ends with a sacred call neither of them expected. As the weight of an unspoken future settles around them, they step forward—not with certainty, but with the quiet courage of those who have waited faithfully on thresholds.

July 26, 2018 AD

The Cost of Silence

Pulled over in a quiet corner of suburbia, Greta wrestles with a decision she can no longer delay. As Evelyn walks peacefully among rosemary and garden beds, Greta dials a number that unravels more than just the afternoon—forcing her to confront fractures that no laminated plan can repair.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Covenant and the Call

As the Apostle rises to deliver a revelation unlike any before, Greta finds herself swept into a moment both historic and intimate. Within the temple’s sacred hush, a covenant is offered and a call extended—one that binds saints across generations and asks of them not just obedience, but transformation. Greta's reply, like the room's, is silent but certain: yes.

July 30, 2018 AD

The Evening That Didn't Happen

On a night meant for togetherness, Greta finds herself alone in the quiet collapse of family plans. As silence thickens and unreturned calls grow louder than words, she reaches for answers in the only place left—an officer’s line, a mother’s memory, and the aching space between what was promised and what now persists: absence.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Fire and the Note

Greta sits in silence, bracing against doubt and the growing weight of disillusionment—until Jerome arrives with something impossible: cash from Earth… and a promise of contact. What begins with flickering firelight ignites into a mother’s determined charge, as Greta dares to believe she might reach the son she thought lost.

July 27, 2018 AD

The Forgetful Mainlanders

A late-night realisation sparks a chaotic and heartfelt attempt by Greta and Noah to make amends for a missed birthday. As laughter and apology blend under a fading fire, Greta finds that even imperfect gestures can carry the full weight of love—especially when wrapped in blanket warmth and sung from the heart.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Gates of Bixbus

Greta arrives at Bixbus and is met not with the promised sanctuary, but a makeshift camp ringed by warnings and silence. As tensions rise and first impressions falter, she confronts the uneasy truth: they’ve crossed more than a desert—they’ve crossed into a place where faith might not be enough to make sense of what comes next.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Ground Beneath Our Pyjamas

Greta, Noah, and Jerome arrive in Clivilius under surreal and disorienting circumstances, reuniting with Paul in a harsh new world that offers no time to adjust. As tensions flare and absurdities mount—from garden trolleys in deserts to family squabbles in pyjamas—Greta begins to understand just how far from home they truly are.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Hours Between

As the quiet rhythm of Sunday continues, Greta moves through the tender aftermath of an unexpected calling. Between kitchen rituals and wardrobe choices, a deeper preparation unfolds—quiet, reverent, and resolute—as she and Noah ready themselves to step into the unknown with nothing but willingness and faith.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Knock

Greta's morning unravels as concern over Paul's silence deepens, and family tensions quietly fray beneath the surface. But when a knock at the door delivers a long-awaited face and a withheld truth, Greta finds herself shut out of the very moment she’s feared—and longed for—most, left grasping at the silence between what is known and what is just beginning to be revealed.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Leaving Ritual

As the Smith household lurches toward Sunday readiness, Greta navigates the choreography of coats, chaos, and quiet reinvention. In the slow transition from hallway to chapel, she reflects on the sacred work of showing up—messy, prepared, and transformed just enough to meet the day’s expectations.

July 26, 2018 AD

The Lemon Offering

During a routine visit to Sister Trenerry's timeworn home, Greta navigates the quiet rituals of ageing, pride, and politeness—one biscuit, one mug of too-sweet tea at a time. But it's the small, unexpected gesture at the door that lingers with her long after, offering something neither of them dared name.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Mug and the Margin

In the aftermath of Luke’s sudden return, Greta seeks solace in routine and a quiet moment with Jerome. But as each comforting gesture collides with the growing sense that she’s been sidelined in her own home, her patience thins—and the kitchen, once her sanctuary, becomes the place where silence speaks loudest.

July 27, 2018 AD

The Noise We Keep

As the Smith household hums with its familiar chaos, Greta escapes to the backyard for a stolen moment of warmth and peppermint tea with Noah. Amid clattering bathtubs, adolescent theories, and flickering firelight, she reflects on how family life rarely grants silence—but often gifts something better.

July 25, 2018 AD

The Quiet Offering

In the stillness of an early evening kitchen, Greta prepares a meal layered with memory, prayer, and hope—each careful gesture a quiet plea for connection. But as the clock ticks on and no one appears, she must reckon with the silence between the offering and the response.

August 1, 2018 AD

The River That Remembers

In the stillness beyond the camp, Greta walks hand in hand with Noah toward the river—seeking solace, but finding something deeper. As doubts swell and the ache of disconnection sharpens, a promise from Noah and a whispered prayer alone by the water become Greta’s fragile compass in a land where nothing feels certain, but everything is waiting to be believed.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Room That Remembered Eden

As Greta and Noah take their seats in the Adelaide Temple’s Endowment Room, they’re drawn into a sacred stillness charged with reverence and quiet awe. With saints gathered, leaders arriving, and the air itself holding its breath, Greta finds herself on holy ground—where the ordinary is transfigured, and the veil between heaven and earth feels heartbreakingly thin.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Sabbath Kitchen

Sunday morning arrives in the Smith household with a rare and fragile quiet — the kind earned by a week that took more than it gave. Greta makes hot chocolate in her most battle-scarred saucepan and sits with Noah on the couch while the house holds its breath. Then the boys wake, and the peace transforms into something louder and lovelier: Jerome choosing a tie with suspicious care, Charles mis-buttoning his shirt with spectacular commitment, and Greta standing at the stove, pouring pancake batter like prayer.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Sacrament and the Kindly Light

As sacrament meeting unfolds with layered stillness and sacred ritual, Greta bears quiet witness to her sons' reverent participation and Bishop Hahn’s stirring testimony. Amid whispered hymns and unspoken prayers, she finds herself not with answers, but with the kind of luminous conviction that asks only for the next faithful step.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Sacred Ordinary

As pancakes sizzle and voices beam in from across oceans, Greta finds herself immersed in the vibrant, messy liturgy of a Sunday morning at home. Between the laughter, teasing, and fleeting stillness, she recognises something holy—not in the flawless, but in the faithful rhythm of family showing up, again and again.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Second Portal

On the crest of a hill, Greta confronts a sight more disturbing than awe-inspiring: a second Portal, larger and stranger, flanked by unsettling omens. As Jerome reaches for Charles through technology and tension brews with Beatrix’s arrival, Greta’s maternal resolve is tested by surreality, sarcasm—and the sting of not knowing how much time, or faith, she has left to give.

July 25, 2018 AD

The Sharp End of Silence

When a tense phone call from her daughter-in-law shatters an otherwise quiet afternoon, Greta is forced to confront the heavy absence of her eldest son and the unravelling threads of a family stretched too thin. In the silence that follows, she must summon grace, compassion, and strength she’s not sure she still possesses.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Smallest Voice

Greta stands in her kitchen worrying about a son who has gone silent, while another son she has not seen in years walks through her front door with news he refuses to share with her. The morning unfolds at the wrong end of every closed door in her own house. By the time she has had enough of waiting and pushes the study open herself, the wall behind her husband and her returning son is no longer a wall at all.

July 25, 2018 AD

The Space They Leave Behind

As dinner winds down and the family disperses, Greta is left in the hush of a now-empty room—its warmth cooling, its voices fading. But beneath the ordinary motions of clearing plates and tidying up, something deeper stirs: an unease that refuses to settle, and a silence that feels less like peace and more like warning.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Spiders and the Veil

Greta steps into a stranger’s caravan and is confronted by more than clutter and spiders—she faces a collision between the sacred rituals she holds dear and a world that sees them as irrelevant. Stripped of comfort and certainty, she must reckon with what it means to carry a covenant in a land that neither recognises nor reveres it.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Still Point

As Greta settles into the quiet choreography of Sunday worship, the familiar rhythm of pews, whispers, and white shirts reveals unexpected depth. Amid sacred rituals and silent glances, a moment of connection—between past and present, family and faith—anchors her in the kind of stillness that speaks without sound.

July 27, 2018 AD

The Things We Don't Fix

In the stillness of a fire-lit evening, Greta lets down the composure she’s held for days, confiding in Noah beneath a sky too wide for easy answers. As guilt, grief, and unspoken fears flicker into focus, it becomes clear that some things aren’t meant to be fixed—only witnessed, held, and endured, together.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Threshold and the Foyer

As Greta and her family arrive at church, what begins as routine becomes quietly profound. Between the car park and the chapel doors, she encounters old friends, young chaos, and subtle shifts in her children’s lives—reminding her that sacredness often begins before the hymn ever plays.

July 26, 2018 AD

The Thursday Ministry

Greta sets out on her colour-coded visiting schedule with Evelyn in tow, balancing scripture, social duty, and scalding honesty—all under the brittle chill of an Adelaide winter. But behind the lists and laminated plans, a quiet strain begins to rise, challenging the very order she so carefully defends.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Trolleys and the Breaking Point

As food supplies arrive through the Portal in surreal procession, Greta finds herself caught between awe, nostalgia, and the crushing weight of maternal helplessness. When talk of Charles triggers deeper fears and she’s quietly ushered away, it’s not just her son she longs for—it’s control, clarity, and the dignity of being needed in a world that seems to be rewriting the rules without her.

August 1, 2018 AD

The Walk That Waited

At the river's edge, Greta is unravelled by sorrow—until an unexpected visit from Karen offers not answers, but a direction. With quiet persuasion and the promise of companionship—even from a golden retriever—Greta steps toward something small and healing: a walk, a glimmer of hope, and the first sense that maybe Clivilius hasn’t finished speaking to her yet.

July 29, 2018 AD

The Weight of a Whisper

As sacrament meeting closes and the congregation begins its familiar class migration, a quiet message from Brother Johnson shifts the air around Greta and Noah. With no explanation—only a name, a nod, and the knowledge that something is coming—they step into the rest of the day marked by a silence that suddenly carries weight.

July 25, 2018 AD

Thread and Threshold

As a quiet afternoon in Greta's sunroom unfolds with the meditative hum of sewing and memory, a single phone call threatens to unravel her hard-won moment of peace. With her sanctuary fraying at the edges, Greta must step from stillness into whatever awaits—carrying both compassion and quiet strength in her wake.

July 27, 2018 AD

Two Sides of the Hallway

Greta rises at 5:47 and begins the quiet war of holding a household together through kettle steam and scripture — but the scriptures go untouched, the prayer gets interrupted by a toaster, and the son who leaves for seminary doesn't look back. Down the hall, Jerome woke a minute earlier with a bandaged arm and a mind that isn't ready for what the day expects of him. She hovers at his door. He feels her there. Neither speaks. The house holds its breath between them — full of love, full of questions, and not a single one asked aloud.

July 29, 2018 AD

We Said Yes

As Greta and Noah step out of the Temple and into the winter night, the sacred weight of their covenant lingers in every breath, every silent glance, every stretch of road unfolding ahead. With hands entwined and hearts steadied by something vast, they carry forward a holy charge—not yet fully understood, but wholly accepted.

July 26, 2018 AD

We Showed Up

In the lingering quiet after their visit to the Mallorys, Greta and Evelyn sit with the weight of all that was left unsaid. As shadows lengthen and the lemon in the cupholder remains untouched, Greta begins to unravel the difference between helping and simply being present—while Evelyn’s quiet wisdom reminds her that sometimes showing up is the only answer we’re allowed.

July 29, 2018 AD

What Follows Yes

In the gentle unravelling of a Sunday afternoon, Greta and Noah carry the weight of a sacred invitation that’s altered the shape of everything. As the ordinary rhythms of family life resume around them, they move forward—hand in hand—toward an unknown that no longer frightens, only beckons.

July 31, 2018 AD

What the Silence Was Holding

A tense exchange over a dinner table unravels more than just place settings, as Greta’s unspoken fears and sacred burdens collide with Charles’s oblivious defiance. With Noah’s calm offering little refuge and the memory of the Temple pressing hard against domestic fractures, Greta must retreat—not to escape, but to hold herself together long enough to remember what still matters.

August 1, 2018 AD

What the Water Took

Greta goes to a lagoon whispered of by Karen, expecting stillness—perhaps even clarity. But what she finds beneath its placid surface is a confrontation far more intimate and devastating than anything Clivilius has yet offered, shaking the foundations of everything she believes she must protect.

July 26, 2018 AD

What We Bring, What We Leave

Greta and Evelyn arrive at the Mallorys’ home with a carefully made dress and cautious intentions, but find themselves met by silence, fatigue, and a door that barely opens. As the visit falters and leaves them with more questions than comfort, Greta begins to reckon with the quiet limits of kindness—and the haunting suspicion that some needs go far deeper than a ribboned offering can reach.

August 1, 2018 AD

What You See Is What You Get

As the Clivilian sun exposes every raw edge of Greta’s disorientation, tensions erupt between borrowed clothes, unspoken debts, and unmet expectations. But when the truth lands—this place is their home now, dusty sheds and all—Greta must reckon not only with what she’s lost, but with the quiet, stubborn flicker of faith that insists she stay.

August 1, 2018 AD

Where the Dust Doesn't Settle

Greta struggles to anchor herself in the barren dissonance of Clivilius as her son’s betrayal, a broken promise, and the ache of absence compound her grief. Despite Paul and Noah’s efforts to soothe the rupture, Greta cannot yet rest—pacing the camp’s dry earth, desperate for something stable in a world where neither home, nor heaven, feels within reach.

July 25, 2018 AD

Where the Dust Doesn't Settle

Greta turns to Noah for answers—but finds only quiet concern and the uncomfortable calm of waiting. As questions about Paul deepen and a subtle sense of dread gathers at the edges, Greta must reconcile her faith in steadiness with the growing fear that something has already shifted.

July 29, 2018 AD

Where the Stillness Begins

Greta crosses the car park like a woman conducting a census — noting who's arrived, who hasn't, who looks tired enough to warrant a quiet phone call later in the week. Brother Rigby guards the threshold in his wife's floral scarf. A young mother passes with three children and a nappy bag the size of a small country, and Greta offers her the only thing worth giving: a smile that says she remembers. Inside, the chapel breathes differently. Jerome stands at the sacrament table like he was made for it. Noah reaches for her hand.

July 29, 2018 AD

Where the Veil Grew Thin

The Adelaide Temple rises against the winter night, its spires catching light Greta has never quite seen before. Inside, the familiar ritual of separation is quietly rewritten — tonight, husbands and wives sit together. An Apostle stands before the gathered saints and speaks of pioneers, of divine callings, of a charge that echoes through eternity. He offers them a choice: leave now, or stay and covenant. Not a single soul moves. What follows is a revelation that will uproot everything Greta and Noah have built — and ask them to build again, somewhere else entirely.