Ichabod discovers glory (1)

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel… I Samuel 4:21 Ichabod was born on the saddest day of his life. His father had been the pastor in the small town just a few miles down the dirt road from the farm where Ichabod grew up. Turns out Pastor Finn had never learned to practice what he preached, and when he got tangled up counseling a woman a little too intimately, he ended up dead at the hands of the woman’s disgruntled husband. When Ichabod’s mother heard...