title: The Yeshua Sanction: Book Two: The Mikveh Scrolls
author:  Steven G. Lightfoot 
description: <span>Steven G. Lightfoot draws on his combat experience as a United States Marine and his deeply spiritual relationship with Christ to weave a masterful tale with the ability to transport the reader into the action.Lightfoot is a writer with a unique sense of observation and the ability to turn his observations into incredibly life-like scenes, using the crafted word as the vehicle for detail. His characters have distinct personalities that cause the reader to become emotionally involved in the story. The reader does not merely read about the characters, but rather builds a relationship with them.Born in the German Rheinland, Lightfoot spent much of his childhood absorbing European culture. His enthusiasm for history, archaeology and spirituality is deeply rooted in his core and manifests itself in his writing.Lightfoot credits the depth of his characters to life-experience. His characters' trials and pains are forged in the crucible of Lightfoot's own life. His characters' joys and victories soar on Lightfoot's own triumphant wings.Lightfoot's most personally celebrated joy is his family. He says, "My beautiful wife, Angela, is my inspiration and my treasure. Together we have six magnificent children, three wonderful sons-in-love, nine beautiful grandbabies, and three crazy dogs. Life is never dull around the Lightfoot house!" Lightfoot serves as Pastor at Countryside United Methodist Church, and in an Extension Ministry, in a safety-net charity clinic serving low-income, uninsured patients; providing care, offering the hope of Christ, and restoring dignity to the "least" of God's people.</span>
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  For Rochita Loenen-Ruiz,
  who carries a light on the long journey
  so others may ﬁnd the path
  
  1
  No one must suspect what I plan to do tonight. I
  should stay in my bed, content with the place I’ve earned
  for myself as an adversary in Garon Stable. I should.
  But I don’t.
  In darkness I swing my legs oﬀ my cot. My toes brush
  the stiﬀ straps of my leather sandals, which I remember to
  shake out in case a scorpion has decided to rest there.
  Nothin