Chapter 3 Summary

According to dona Felicia, nothing you do to heal will work without first placing your faith completely in God. Dona Felicia herself was once a "non-believer"; as a child, she was suspicious of the religion that failed to help the destitute around her, including her mother, who died of malnutrition and untreated disease when dona Felicia was eight. When she developed her faith, it was through the guidance of the wise teachers dona Felicia met as she traveled home with her two infants from the Mexican Civil War after her husband Juan was killed.

Later, dona Felicia became caretaker of the House of God in Tome, and began to see her God as a guiding light and herself as a lowly foot soldier doing his work. She taught herself to read and write, first in Spanish, then in...