Anyone who has read the Bible knows the story of Tabitha, or Dorcas / Gazelle.

Why is this little story in the Bible?  What happened before?  And what happened AFTER?

Who was she?  Weren’t there many philanthropic women at the time; and many who wove cloth and many who made clothing from that cloth?   Did they buy the cloth? Spin the thread?  Were Tabitha’s garments common homespun or of commercial trading quality?

Was she a widow?  How did her husband die?  Sickness?  Violence?  If so how did she respond?

How did she die?  What brought on that fever? Most likely an infection, but how?

What do we know?  Question is, what is most likely probable in those times?

Desperation is checkmate to morals and good sense. Good people get in the crossfire in many ways.

This is a story about the great and the fallen, about the hard working and the lazy, war and peace, and about good and evil.  There is birth and there is death, there was suffering and there's triumph.  It is about God’s unselfish gift of His Son to us.

Isn't that life?

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