Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin

Author:Lynn Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781585584154
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

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The sound of weeping awakened Leah in the night. She rose from her mat at the foot of Elizabeth’s bed to comfort the child. Barely eighteen months old, Elizabeth was too young to comprehend what had happened to her mother, why the lovely woman in the room next door was suddenly gone, why the entire household had plunged into deep mourning. Nor had Leah herself finished grieving for Ruth. She had grown to love her mistress. The empty place Ruth left in Leah’s heart seemed as dark and as vast as the cloudy sky above Galilee.

But when Leah knelt at Elizabeth’s bedside, she saw that the child was still asleep. Listening in the darkness to the heartbreaking cries, she realized that they came from Mistress Ruth’s room. She tiptoed to the adjoining door, thinking it might be Miriam. But the figure slumped in despair wasn’t the gray-haired servant.

Master Reuben sat alone on his wife’s sleeping couch, his elbows on his knees, his face buried in his hands. Leah knew she should turn away and allow the man to grieve in privacy, but the sound of his brokenness brought tears to her own eyes. He had no one in all the world to comfort him.

He didn’t look up as Leah came into the room. Standing over him, she wrapped her slender arms around his shoulders and rested her head on his. “I loved her, too, Master Reuben,” she said softly.

After a moment he reached for her, clung to her, and they wept together. When his tears were spent, he released her. Without a word, he stood and left the room.

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