by Lisa Ellen Kimball

Memories are powerful. They can make us smile, laugh, make us sad, and they hold together our very identity. But for one man, Jay Vaschenko, they hold a very different meaning. For him, they are a nightmare. For sixty years he has run from them, building up walls to protect himself from their haunting power. But the walls have crumbled and he is reliving the past, remembering that which he wanted to forget. His memories take him back in time, to a place where he was Captain Jay Vaschenko of the Soviet Army. It was in Russia that he was in charge of hunting down and killing Christians. His memories show him Mary Khamara, the Christian who God had sent to him to show him his errors. Will this modern-day Saul listen to the words that were spoken so many years before? Or will he bury the past once again?