The Healer's Touch Tikva's Story by Cossette Connilyn & Guideposts

Author:Cossette, Connilyn & Guideposts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guideposts
Published: 2023-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Tikva could not reconcile that the face she saw before her was the same one she’d beheld back in Ptolemais. There was no trace of disease, no scars, nothing at all to indicate that this young woman had once been afflicted by leprosy.

“But…how could this be?” asked Tikva, her gaze traveling over the woman’s smooth, clear skin and the arms and hands that were no longer wrapped in protective linen. Na’ami was whole. And what was more, because of it, she would no longer be considered unclean. Was this the work of Yeshua?

“My mother saw you walk by back in the market. She instructed me to follow after you and bring you to her.” Without hesitation, Na’ami reached for Tikva’s hand. “Come, please. Come with me, and we will break our fasts together. I have much to tell you.”

Tikva turned to Simcha. “These people are my friends, and…” She looked back at Na’ami’s lovely, expectant face. Chavah’s declaration from the day they’d met returned to her mind. “But if there is any chance that he can heal my girl, then I will walk any distance and turn over my very soul to this Yeshua of Nazareth.”

“They came for the same reason we did,” she continued. “And it seems that perhaps…they have already met the rabbi?”

She searched Na’ami’s face for the answer, and it came with a brilliant smile and a nod.

With a confused pinch between his brows, Simcha looked between Na’ami and Tikva until understanding seemed to dawn, and his countenance lifted.

Without a word, he went to Zuri, giving him directions to the potter’s home with the promise that he and Tikva would meet them there later this afternoon.

Once their group had moved on, Tikva and Simcha followed Na’ami back through Capernaum, winding their way south through the market where the air was now replete with the sounds of bartering and the bleat and bray of livestock.

“Have you been here this entire time?” Tikva asked Na’ami when they’d finally broken free of the crowds.

“We have. My mother refused to stop anywhere along the way, determined as she was to get me before Yeshua.”

“So you have seen him then. He really did heal you?”

Na’ami’s smile rivaled the golden morning light for radiance. “That he did.”

A thousand questions lay heavy on Tikva’s tongue, but it seemed as though Na’ami was bent on bringing them to her mother before divulging anything more, urging Tikva and Simcha to follow her down a winding path to the water’s edge.

Hiram and Chavah were seated together on the beach, shoulder to shoulder and cross-legged in front of a small fire, Levon sitting across from them. The smell of roasting fish tantalized Tikva’s senses as they approached.

As soon as she caught sight of the three of them, Chavah bounced to her feet, her movements far too spry for a woman with a full head of silver.

“Tikva!” she called out and rushed to greet her. “I am so delighted that Na’ami found you. We have plenty of food to share between us.

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