Francine Rivers - The Last Sin Eater
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God has blessed me with a wonderful family and many friends who have been consistently supportive and encouraging. My husband, Rick; my agent, Jane Jordan Browne; and my editor, Karen Ball, have been heavily involved in seeing me through each project. Thank you for always being there.
Peggy Lynch: Thank you for listening to me and asking the hard questions that make me think more deeply.
Liz and Bill Higgs: Thank you for sending a box of resource materials!
Loveknotters: Thank you for listening, advising, sharing, and praying.
Mountains.
This is a purelyfictional story of one such person.
LEVITCUS 16:8-10
"Iam the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The first time I saw the sin eater was the night Granny Forbes was carried to her grave. I was very young and Granny my dearest companion and I was greatly troubled in my mind.
"Dunna look at the sin eater, Cadi," I'd been told
by my pa. " And no be asking why.
Being so grievously forewarned, I tried to obey. Mama said I was acurst with curiosity. Papa said it was pure cussed nosiness. Only Granny, with her tender spot for me, had understood.
Even the simplest queries were met withresistance . When you're older.... It's none of your business.... Why are you asking such a foolquestion? The summer before Granny died I had stopped asking questions of anyone. I reckoned if I were ever going to find answers, I'd have to go looking for myself.
Granny was the only one who seemed to understand my mind. She always said I had
It was the wife who took such a liking to Granny. As a Welshwoman herself, the young missus was longing for home. Granny was young then, seventeen to her recollection. Unfortunately, she didn't work for them long, as the lady died in childbirth and took her wee babe with her. The gentleman didn't have further need of a lady's maid - and what services he did want rendered Granny refused to provide. She'd never say
Grandfather Forbes died of a winter long before I was born. A heavy storm had come, and he lost his way home. Where he had been, Granny didn't say. It was one of the things that frustrated me most, only hearing part of the story and not the whole. It was left to me to piece it all together and took years in the doing. Some of it is best not told.
When asked why she had married such a fierce man, Granny said, "He had eyes blue as a dusky sky, dearie. You have 'em, Cadi, my love, same as your papa does. And you've Ian's soul hunger, God help you."
The morning she died, we were just sitting and looking out over the hollow. She had leaned back in her chair, rubbing her arm as though it was paining her. Mama was moving around inside the house. Granny drew in her breath with a grimace and then looked at me. "Give your mama time."
How four words could hurt. They brought to mind all that had been before and what had caused the wall between Mama and me. Some things can't be changed or undone.
Even at my young age, after a mere ten years of living, the future stretched bleakly out ahead of me. Resting my head against Granny's knee, I said nothing and took what solace I could in her sweet presence, not guessing that even that would soon be taken from me. And if I could go back now and change things so that I would not have lived through such a time of desolation, would I? No. For God had his hand upon me before I
Granny laid her hand upon my head and began stroking me like I was one of the hounds that slept under our porch. I liked it. Some days I wished I was one of them hounds Papa loved so much. Mama never touched me anymore, nor Papa either. They didn't speak much to one another, and even less to me. Only my brother, Iwan, showed me affection, though not often. He had too much to do helping Papa with the farm. What little time he had left over was spent in mooning over Cluny Byrnes.
Granny was my only hope, and she was slipping away.
"I love you, my dear. You remember that when winter comes and everything seems cold and dead. It won't stay that way forever."
Winter had come upon Mama's heart last summer, and she was still a frozen wasteland where I was concerned.
"Spring beauties used to grow like a lavender blanket at Bearwallow. If I could wish for one thing, it would be for a bouquet of spring beauties."
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