We live in uncertain times.
Many of us are searching for something solid to help us through these uncertain times.
Life is a mystery.
There are things we cannot see but somehow know are present.
A fragrance can fill a room without being seen.
The mystery is we know there is more to life than we can see?
**Finding what is solid **and discovering what is present.
Perhaps being spiritually curious is simply being willing to ask the question.
Keziah makes perfumes with her hands. She’ll rebuild Jerusalem with her heart.
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In the aftermath of the Babylonian Siege, seventeen-year-old Keziah bat Alter is the unmarried daughter of a district ruler, struggling to ‘behave’ as a woman in the rubble of Jerusalem’s fallen streets.
With her mother blind and her twin sister desperate to marry, Keziah finds solace in the practice of perfumery and in the presence of her close friend, Ben.
But solace is a luxury she can’t afford for long.
When the governor Nehemiah calls the city to rebuild its walls, her father has no sons to respond, and Keziah knows that upholding their family’s honour rests firmly on her shoulders.
Once the districts are assigned their sections, Keziah is left with an impossible choice: let her family’s name be dragged through the dirt, or defy everything a woman is permitted to do and risk rebuilding it herself.
Set among the limestone hills and dusty streets of fifth-century Jerusalem, where stars shine brightly and God rewards the courageous, Scent and Stone is a reimagined version of the events in Nehemiah, full of hope, first loves and the power of faith.
The rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls is fundamentally about laying foundations, restoring what has been broken, creating something secure, and rebuilding a community around what matters. Family, Faith and Freedom.
