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As head nurse Maxine West hurries to attend to a newborn in critical condition, she encounters a stranger who asks deeply probingand personal questions. Jasper Cole, newspaper reporter, is on his way to see Maxine when he is stopped short by the sight of an unearthly flock of sheep staring at him from out of the darkness. From the Planet-of-the-High-Wind-Sound in a neighboring solar system, Rohoo and his family watch Jasper Cole walking along on what they call “the earth of the dead.” Thus begins an adventure in which the souls of two men inhabit each other’s bodies to learn the ways of a strange and different world; and in which a hurting woman unexpectedly finds herself in conversation with God, to whom she poses demanding questions. Gertrude Nelson Diem (1902-1994) spent the 1940s through the 1960s composing works of spiritual/religious writing that are both intensely intellectual and profoundly poetic. In Sapphire she explores the role and symbolism of Woman, and also the relationship of God with created beings that are free to reject him. This is a story to read more than once. It will open you to a new view of our seemingly messy existence on this earth, and a new way to imagine the human heart of God.