Dale Midkiff credited as playing...
Clark Davis
- Clark Davis: The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be here with us when they do.
- Marty Claridge: I have to stay for the right reasons
- Clark Davis: Stay because I love you. I love you!
- Marty Claridge: Maybe I should stay because I love *you*.
- Clark Davis: Missie could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.
- Marty Claridge: The books. How did you know they were mine and not Aaron's?
- Clark Davis: Oh, well, a man would have thrown them off the wagon at the first big hill. Unless he was trying to please a stubborn woman.
- Clark Davis: Where did the skunk find you?
- Marty Claridge: In the barn.
- Missie Davis: We need some more tomatoes, Pa. It took a whole bushel to get her smelling this good.
- Missie Davis: [Missie and Clark find the chicken coop a mess and the stump with blood on it] Looks like a coyote got in there, Pa.
- Clark Davis: [looking at the stump] Or a wild woman with an axe.
- Clark Davis: Father, I don't know why You brought Marty into my life only to have her leave like this. I don't always understand Your plan, but I ask You with a shattered heart, please help me to accept it. Amen.
- Marty Claridge: There is no way you're going to be my--my midwife! Find someone else!
- Clark Davis: There ain't no time for that.
- Marty Claridge: *Isn't!* I'll be fine. I'll be fine. Did you deliver Missie?
- Clark Davis: No, there was Sarah...
- Missie Davis: But Pa's delivered plenty of calves.
- Marty Claridge: [sarcastically] Oh, that makes me feel so much better.
- Clark Davis: Missie, we'll need a lot of hot water and the shears from the barn. They'll need to be sterilized.
- Marty Claridge: Missie! Missie, don't you dare!
- [Clark gestures and tells Missie to go]
- Marty Claridge: I would rather give birth in a field than have you in here!
- Clark Davis: Childbirth is a natural event.
- Marty Claridge: Ooooooh, if you feel what I'm feeling you'll see how natural it is. Now get out!
- [she has another contraction]
- Marty Claridge: Oh, I can't do this alone. Please help me. Please!
- [she holds up her left hand which has her wedding ring on it]