The Making of the Lamb by Bear Robert

Author:Bear, Robert [Bear, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Making of the Lamb
ISBN: 9780989313810
Publisher: Eirth Publications, LLC
Published: 2014-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Mary

It was still dark the next morning when Mary rousted Jesus from his bed. The dough left in the warm area near the fire had risen overnight. “It’s harder to use the fire embers to raise the dough.” She kept her voice low as the others slept. “I had to check on it a few times during the night. The dough will not rise if it gets too hot or too cold.”

They went outside into the morning fog and found a place to work. “You don’t really need to do this,” Jesus said as they formed the loaves. “We can buy our bread in the village. You can sleep soundly through the whole night.”

“Did you think I came here to get fat and lazy?”

Jesus laughed. “Not you, Mother. And we get to have this time together. We cannot buy that in the village.”

Mary smiled as they went about their work. They did not need to say anything. They could work silently, in the joy of each other’s company.

Jesus went inside to put more wood on the fire. As the flames came to life around the baking stones, he and his mother positioned the loaves for the final rising. Mary signaled Jesus to follow her outside again, where they could talk.

“How have you been, my son?”

“How do I seem to you?”

“I can see that you have come to love it here in Britain, but Joseph told me you lost your best friend in battle, and that has made you very sad.”

“That’s right. But you have also lost your husband.”

“He was so sick at the end, and it was hard to see him linger in pain. I was ready when the end came. After that, there was nothing to keep me in Nazareth—certainly not with you so far away. I had enough money for the passage to Arelate. That’s where Uncle Joseph happened to see me in the market, and he brought me here right away.”

“I saw that in my dream, Mother—the dream I had when I started building this house.”

“It must have been harder for you to lose your best friend when it was so unexpected.”

“I suppose that no death in war should be all that unexpected,” he answered. “Even so, Fedwig’s death still grieves me to the core.”

“Are there no other friends you can make here?” Mary asked. “And what of Daniel?”

“There are plenty of friends to be had, Mother, but no one can take the place of Fedwig. He taught me the ways of the sword, and we always had such great fun. I miss the way he could laugh at anything. He never seemed to know any fear, even when I first met him as a child. Daniel is wonderful, and I am so happy we will be real brothers now, but it’s not the same.”

“Surely, you must have made a friend somewhere. I remember how you befriended every child in the village back in Nazareth.”

“Actually, there was one boy who reminded me of Fedwig. But I only met him once.

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