Well, I finally got around to reading this book everyone has been talking about. What a wonderful story! A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together - a homeless man meets a rich couple learning to love Jesus and everyone ends up different because of it.
I won't completely spoil the book for you, but there are several important reasons people must read this book.
First of all, it is yet another great introduction to what it means to be homeless in America. While this is not the intention of the book, it serves this purpose nonetheless.
Secondly, it is a lovely picture of the place of suffering and difficulty in the Christian life. And this treatment of suffering is made even more lovely by the fact that the authors do not give in to the Christian tendency to platitude. Pain is pain, disappointment is disappointment - confusion and anger at God are openly expressed. Yet faith is here.
Third and finally, it is a gorgeous picture of God's ability to transform lives. And not simply lives in obvious need of transformation, but also those lives we superficially consider to be already complete. God has truly chosen the foolish to shame the wise.Please read this book. And please do so when you have time to let the ripples of this book go deep. This is well worth shutting off the television for an evening...
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