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Knowing the day of one’s own death is about as rare a thing as there is in this world, but Mercy knew and the knowledge clung to her with stark urgency. She had slogged through the day, going through the motions of her job while wrapped in an ironclad shroud of apprehension. Not about what she would have to do, nor why, nor even what the end result would be. All of that had been revealed in her final short dream during the early morning hours, a dream concerning events she had long believed might be waiting for her, now becoming very, very real and immediate. True, the identity of the recipient of the blessing was still unknown. But she had narrowed it down to one of two very close friends, and in the end, though their suffering would be horrific for a short time, she would soon thereafter free them from every vestige of that suffering, every wound, every scar. Mercy had a feeling that, afterward, the recipient would probably never even remember what had happened.
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Bethany watched, dazed, as the blood began to flow from Mercy’s wounds. She could not understand what was happening, none of it made any sense. They still had to see to Amy, they had to…
The minister looked now to the little girl, and saw her myriad wounds miraculously begin to recede from her body, then to disappear altogether. Moments later, they reappeared, in the exact same places, to the exact same degrees, on Mercy. The color was slowly beginning to return to Amy’s skin, while it drained steadily away from Mercy’s.
Giving her very life away, so that Amy could live. Taking on her wounds, so that Amy could be healed.
It was purest Mercy.
Purest Mercy
Purest Mercy is a Christian fiction novel about the extraordinary ways that God can use the simplest, humblest people to achieve great miracles. In it, we meet Mercy, a homeless teenager on the run from horrific circumstances, who finds her place of belonging when she comes upon the Resurrection Christian Mission Church, and its dedicated pastor, Rev. Bethany Lewis. RCMC is a ministry specifically 
aimed at alleviating the difficulties and struggles experienced by homeless people, but they are strapped to the limit, and about to run out of food to serve the community… when Mercy’s prayers result in a miraculous trove of food. But the miracles are only just beginning. As Mercy’s prayers begin to transform more and more lives with healing and hope, she falls in love with David Mullins, a homeless youth she seems to know from Another Time and Place. Mercy, David, and Bethany form a tight-knit family, drawn all the closer when a younger girl, Amy, joins them off the streets. Then, one night, during an intense ice storm, Amy is attacked and left for dead at a nearby park… until Mercy finds her and, in a final act of selflessness, literally takes on Amy’s wounds, receiving the stigmata just as she loses consciousness. Frantically, Bethany gets the young people back to the parsonage, where Mercy dies the following Good Friday, 2013. The family, and the Resurrection community, are heartsick over the shocking loss. Until God, again through Mercy, proves to them once and for all that even death cannot separate them from the Love–and Mercy–of the Divine.
