A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge #1)

by Connilyn Cossette

Ora had not been born blind, but when her parents purchased an eye salve from a trader, to supposedly cure her of an infection she’d picked up from the blowing sands in the desert, the salve had instead blinded her permanently. Five years old and never again able to see a flower, a bird, a sunset. She’d never seen the face of her only child.

Be grateful of the little things

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that one can either endure hardship or thrive within it.”

“There is a Creator, they said. The One who made All. One who spoke Words and All came to be. One who even the mighty Pharaoh could not defeat.” She shrugged. “I do not know the name of this powerful god or where he comes from, but out of love for my mother and father, I keep looking. Perhaps I will never know.”

Pork. One of the items Yahweh had labeled abominable, incapable of ever being made clean.

And perhaps it was not Yahweh who had stopped whispering to my heart seven years ago, but me who had built a wall between us.

Every man should be blessed to have a son with a warrior’s heart.”