These daily dramas play out under the watchful eyes of the storks that nest on the rooftop of the house. Shahbal longs only to get hold of a television to watch the first moon landing. Sadiq is waiting for a suitor to knock at the door to ask for her hand, while her two grandmothers sweep the floors each morning dreaming of traveling to Mecca. The house teems with life as each family grows up with their own triumphs and tragedies. Now it is occupied by three cousins≺qa Jaan, a merchant and head of the city’s bazaar Alsaberi, the imam of the mosque and Aqa Shoja, the mosque’s muezzin. In the house of the mosque, the family of Aqa Jaan has lived for eight centuries. A sweeping, compelling story bringing to life the Iranian Revolution, from an author who experienced it first hand. It is Iran in 1969.
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(previously published as On Furtune's Wheel)Īfter telling Gwyn's story, I thought I was finished with the Kingdom, but some time later, I read a book about life in a city during the Renaissance era. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries. FebruSermon Take This Bread John 6.26-3 I Corinthians 11.23-25 Acts 2.42-46 Sandra Larson Adapted from excerpts of Sara Miles’ book, Take this Bread Intro: Each person in this room interprets the Lord’s Supper in their own unique way, and each time we receive this sacrament, we come with different needs, so each time, we are fed in a new way. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church's altar to be given away. 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