Obil, Keeper of Camels: Being the Parable of the Man Whom the Disciples Saw Casting Out Devils

A camel keeper in ancient Palestine, Obil has lost everything that ever mattered to him: his wife Miriam, taken by death, and his faith in a God who would allow such suffering. Consumed by hatred for the divine, he drifts through his days tending camels, hollowed out by grief and vengeance. Then he witnesses something that cracks his hardened heart open: the miracles of Jesus. What follows is a transformation that feels almost violent in its tenderness, as Obil wrestles with a love larger than his pain, larger than his rage, large enough to include even him. He comes to understand that divine grace is not a transaction but an ocean, and that redemption sometimes wears the face of the enemy you were yesterday. The book builds toward a climactic healing that feels both inevitable and astonishing, the natural conclusion of a soul finally remade.