Word: longings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she hesitated, assuming that this was some evil joke, the voice spoke again: "You're free to refuse, and I'm free to tell you that should you accept, your life will last much longer than most, and long years of it will feel like no pain other humans know, not even your mother with the demon that ate her breast like bread...
...months into his tour through Galilee, Jesus (to revert to his English name) managed to take his 12 best students and hide out with them for three long days. It was the first calm escape they had managed since his success as a healer and exorcist had kept them mobbed night and day by the helpless...
...real guilt and leave for home, Jesus freed them for the first time to ask any question. Till then he had been so busy telling them the news of God's coming reign on Earth and their duties in it that they had barely had time to ask how long he would need their company...
Jesus laughed--Peter's bluntness was a general source of laughter--and then he took a long wait to think. Finally, with his right hand, Jesus reached out and traced a plumb, straight line, perpendicular to the sky. Then he said, "Those 40 days I spent alone, starving by the Dead Sea, Satan himself showed up only three times. My worries were mainly snakes and rocks and no sign of water. But the final time I saw the Tempter, he came in the clothes and body of Joseph, the man who married my mother and raised...
Hamer had taken up his old life as a plasterer, and he lived with his toothless mother and a wife who loathed Judas the moment she knew he came from the old days--Hamer's wild days with Jesus, not so long ago, maybe 16 months. Hamer shut her up fast, and she cooked them a decent meal. Afterward Hamer took Judas out to the edge of the village, a plateau aimed at the distant Dead Sea. He said to Judas, "You know Jesus told me, early on, that he was born here--it's David's town, remember? Said...