Her Biggest Break Would Cost Her Son Six Weeks - What the Tide Leaves - Christian Romance Audiobook
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Simone Farley makes her living turning broken things into something beautiful. Her mosaics — built from sea glass, tide-worn stone, and china nobody could bear to throw away — hang in airports and hospitals across the Pacific Northwest. But in Cannon Beach, Oregon, she's just a single mom running a careful, seven-step morning routine for a ten-year-old son who sees the world a little differently, and who needs her to be his fixed point.
Then two things arrive in the same summer. An architect named Griffin Tate comes to town to build a civic center and asks Simone for the biggest wall of her career — and, to her surprise, kneels down in a tide pool to hear every word her son has to say. And a national arts foundation calls with the offer she's prayed for over twenty years: a solo retrospective in Washington, D.C. — six weeks away from home, at exactly the moment her son can least afford to lose her.
What is ambition allowed to cost when someone else is part of the equation? Set against Haystack Rock, the wide tidal flats, and the afternoon fog of the Oregon coast, What the Tide Leaves is a story about beauty for ashes, about ordering our loves rightly, and about the difference between a man who tolerates a child and one who welcomes him.
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🎵 The original song featured at the end of this story, What the Tide Leaves, was written and produced by SimplyGraceAudio.
Scriptures in this story:
Isaiah 61:3 — beauty for ashes
Psalm 127:3–4 — children as a heritage; arrows in a warrior's hands
Matthew 18:5 — whoever welcomes a child welcomes Him
Proverbs 31:25–26 — clothed with strength and dignity; laughing at the days to come
Romans 12:12 — joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer
Chapters:
00:00 Chapter One: The Breaking Room
12:07 Chapter Two: Low Tide
25:02 Chapter Three: Visible Seams
37:07 Chapter Four: The Call
49:57 Chapter Five: What the Fog Does
1:01:55 Chapter Six: Arrows
1:13:21 Chapter Seven: The Crack Runs Through
1:25:58 Chapter Eight: Strength and Dignity
1:39:58 Chapter Nine: Welcome
1:52:25 Chapter Ten: What the Tide Leaves
2:05:20 Original Song: "What the Tide Leaves"
2:09:35 Closing & Thank You
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I kept my heart in careful rows
Counted every cost before I chose
I held the calendar so tight
I couldn't see Who wrote the light
I built a life from what was broken
Every seam of it left open
And I called that good enough
For a woman used to shattered stuff
Look at all that the tide leaves
Every shard of glass gone soft as gold
Every stone the water taught to shine
You take the ashes I've been holding
Trade them for a crown of beauty
And what I thought was lost is finally mine
There's a door I prayed would open wide
And a door I couldn't close inside
I stood there doing arithmetic
Like the answer was for me to pick
But love was never mine to measure
And time was never mine to treasure
So I laid the pieces at Your feet
And let You be the eye that sees
Look at all that the tide leaves
Every shard of glass gone soft as gold
Every stone the water taught to shine
You take the ashes I've been holding
Trade them for a crown of beauty
And what I thought was lost is finally mine
Joyful in the hoping
Patient in the ache
Faithful in the asking
While the answer's on its way
I'm clothed in strength, I'm clothed in grace
I can laugh at what's to come
'Cause the One who made the water
Knows the way the water runs
Look at all that the tide leaves
Every shard of glass gone soft as gold
Every stone the water taught to shine
You take the ashes I've been holding
Trade them for a crown of beauty
And what I thought was lost is finally mine
So I'll walk the flats at evening
When the water's pulled away
And I'll gather what You've left me
And I'll trust You with the day
Look at all that the tide leaves
Look at all that the tide leaves
Her Biggest Break Would Cost Her Son Six Weeks - What the Tide Leaves - Christian Romance Audiobook
Simply Grace Audio
1,708 views
Simone Farley makes her living turning broken things into something beautiful. Her mosaics — built from sea glass, tide-worn stone, and china nobody could bear to throw away — hang in airports and hospitals across the Pacific Northwest. But in Cannon Beach, Oregon, she's just a single mom running a careful, seven-step morning routine for a ten-year-old son who sees the world a little differently, and who needs her to be his fixed point.
Then two things arrive in the same summer. An architect named Griffin Tate comes to town to build a civic center and asks Simone for the biggest wall of her career — and, to her surprise, kneels down in a tide pool to hear every word her son has to say. And a national arts foundation calls with the offer she's prayed for over twenty years: a solo retrospective in Washington, D.C. — six weeks away from home, at exactly the moment her son can least afford to lose her.
What is ambition allowed to cost when someone else is part of the equation? Set against Haystack Rock, the wide tidal flats, and the afternoon fog of the Oregon coast, What the Tide Leaves is a story about beauty for ashes, about ordering our loves rightly, and about the difference between a man who tolerates a child and one who welcomes him.
If this story touched you, we'd love to hear from you in the comments. Subscribe for a new faith-filled romance every week.
🎙️ All stories on SimplyGraceAudio are original works featuring high-quality AI narration, written and produced for women who love clean, faith-based fiction with heart.
🎵 The original song featured at the end of this story, What the Tide Leaves, was written and produced by SimplyGraceAudio.
Scriptures in this story:
Isaiah 61:3 — beauty for ashes
Psalm 127:3–4 — children as a heritage; arrows in a warrior's hands
Matthew 18:5 — whoever welcomes a child welcomes Him
Proverbs 31:25–26 — clothed with strength and dignity; laughing at the days to come
Romans 12:12 — joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer
Chapters:
00:00 Chapter One: The Breaking Room
12:07 Chapter Two: Low Tide
25:02 Chapter Three: Visible Seams
37:07 Chapter Four: The Call
49:57 Chapter Five: What the Fog Does
1:01:55 Chapter Six: Arrows
1:13:21 Chapter Seven: The Crack Runs Through
1:25:58 Chapter Eight: Strength and Dignity
1:39:58 Chapter Nine: Welcome
1:52:25 Chapter Ten: What the Tide Leaves
2:05:20 Original Song: "What the Tide Leaves"
2:09:35 Closing & Thank You