To my friends in Israel, Marian and Veronika Brenner, for their help in Hebrew translation and wording. (Isn’t God great to have arranged our dinner seating on that cruise?)
As mentioned briefly in the dedication, I have struggled for some time with chronic illness. I would be remiss if at the end of a book on suffering, I neglected to thank the professionals who helped ease my chronic pain. Many thanks to Dr. Marlene Dietrich, Dr. Richard Carroll, Dr. Donna Archer, and Ellen eAkins, LMP. Through their compassionate care, we have managed the pain and hopefully touched many hearts. In addition, I’d like to encourage those of you enduring chronic illness to visit www.restministries.com for great encouragement and resources.
No doubt I have forgotten to mention my heartfelt thanks to someone very important. To you, I ask for grace. Hopefully I’ll have better record-keeping systems in place for the next book!
And to you, the reader, thanks for spending your valuable time with me here in these pages. My prayer is that you’ve seen God’s Word fit together as an interwoven story that will, from this day forward, speak in a fresh new way.
Finally, most importantly, to my God—who speaks in whispers and rumblings when I open His Word. How can I ever express the depth of my love, my hunger, my joy, my thanks, to the Creator of all things creative?
Mesu Andrews is an active speaker who has devoted herself to passionate and intense study of Scripture. Harnessing her deep understanding and love for God’s Word, Andrews brings the biblical world alive for her readers in this debut novel. She lives in Washington. Visit Mesu at www.mesuandrews.com or www.loveamidtheashes.com.
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[1]. Erez Erlichman, “Hoopoe Israel’s New National Bird,” Ynetnews.com, May 30, 2008, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3549637,00.html.
Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Prologue
Part I
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
12
Part II
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
Part III
24
25
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Ads
Notes