Nehemiah had been very young when he and his father had been taken to Susa.  His father had been a stone worker and had done much work for the empire.  Hacaliah was very talented with all sorts of stonework.  He knew the correct tools to work with harder or softer stones.  He truly was a…

The voice on the phone tells a story between heartfelt sobs. Many times, I thought we must have lost the connection, but I could just make out the woman’s voice working to gain composure to continue to tell the story.  The story comes down to this.  Her son had been a straight A student throughout…