{"id":1002,"date":"2019-02-08T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.whitefire-publishing.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2020-06-01T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T13:06:53","slug":"alone-the-woman-at-the-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitefire-publishing.com\/read\/alone-the-woman-at-the-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone The Woman at the Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alone The Woman at the Well<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Golden Keyes Parsons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marah\u2019s life has been difficult. Her father died when she was three, and a succession of men began the parade through her life\u2014men who disappointed and abused her. Her heart withers away. Her youth fades. She did what she had to do to survive. There is no joy or freshness in her life, until that day at the well of Sychar when a stranger from Galilee asks her for a drink of water. What she had thirsted for all of her life is showered upon her in that brief meeting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dear Reader, <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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This\nseries about nameless women in Scripture has been in my heart for 30 years. I\nwrote the first book about the adulterous woman approximately that long ago. I\nwas an amateur writer then and made many mistakes on the technical side of the\ncraft, but the story was there. And I kept pitching the idea to publishers and\neditors, but at that time the popularity of biblical fiction was waning. Or\nmore well-known authors had a series out there that was too similar. For\nwhatever reason, publishers were not interested. But the series wouldn\u2019t let me\ngo. It seemed interesting to me that some of the major encounters Jesus had in\nhis ministry were with women, and that those women were not even named in the\naccounts. However, they were important enough to be included in the canon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\nmeantime, I got a contract for another series, based on my family<\/a> genealogy in\n17th<\/sup> century France, the Darkness to Light series, and subsequently\npublished a Civil War novel set in Texas, His Steadfast Love<\/em>. One day\nvia a writers email loop I learned that WhiteFire Publishing was interested in\nbiblical fiction. My agent pitched it to them. They bought the series and they\nare now reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope\nyou will find touchstones in these stories that will ring true to you as a\nwoman. Jesus broke many cultural and social mores of the day to relate to\nwomen\u2014women who felt trapped by laws and tradition; those who needed\nforgiveness; some who had been abused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May the\nOne who has our names engraved on the palm of His hand minister to you through\nthese novellas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                                                Blessings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                            Golden\nKeyes Parsons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n