Paul's Patrons Series:
A stranger at the well. An offer that could cost her everything she loves.
Rebekah keeps her father's flocks alive, and she keeps her family's secrets. Out in the hills the work is hard enough to hold her childhood nightmares at bay, but winter drives her home, and home brings the memories back.
When an injury leaves her father unable to lead, he places the future of the household in her hands and asks her to prepare her younger brother, Laban, to take his place. Laban is young, proud, and nowhere near ready. If he fails, everything her father built fails with him.
Then a stranger arrives at the well with gold, a message, and an offer she never expected. He asks her to leave the only life she has known and marry a man she has never met, in a land she has never seen.
Will Rebekah stay and hold her family together, or trust a stranger with her future?
She said yes to a marriage with a man she has never seen. Now she has to reach him.
The road is longer and lonelier than Rebekah imagined. The nights are cold, the old nightmares return, and every mile carries her further from everyone she loves. All she knows of Isaac comes from the stories a faithful servant tells her along the way.
Isaac has spent his life in obedience. He followed his father up a mountain expecting to die there, and he has asked for only one thing since. Now a bride is traveling from his father's homeland, and he waits in the field at evening, wondering whether Yahweh's promise is finally on its way to him.
Two strangers, bound by a covenant neither of them arranged.
Will Rebekah reach the man she is pledged to, and will she be the one Yahweh has chosen to bless the world?
She prayed twenty years for these sons. Now they may destroy each other.
When Yahweh finally answers Rebekah's prayer, He answers it twice, and the struggle between her sons begins before they are even born.
Esau belongs to the open country. Jacob belongs to the tents. As they grow, their rivalry hardens into something their mother cannot soothe, and the peace of her household slips further from her grasp with every passing year.
So Rebekah makes a plan. A borrowed blessing, a deception, and a future secured for the son she believes Yahweh has chosen. The plan succeeds, and the cost is higher than she was prepared to pay. Jacob must flee for his life toward an uncle in the land of her birth.
Can Rebekah hold her family together, or has she lost her son in the very act of saving him?