a warning label would have been nice

seriously.
i have not cried through a book like this since i read a severe mercy years ago.

same kind of different as me.
ron hall & denver moore.

homeless man.... who was a sharecropper (aka slave).
wealthy man..... who makes millions selling art.
they become friends because of the rich wife.
she loves jesus.
she loves the homeless man.
she gets her rich husband to love the homeless man.
she dies.
it is the story of their friendships, their struggles with faith, god showing up, amazing things happening..... and of course, my snippet of a post can do no justice to their story.
a story of redemption.
of grace.
of love.
of jesus.

and of course i started it thinking it was a different book entirely. boy was i wrong, but glad i was. i must have heard of it since i actually requested it from the library. i figured out i had the wrong book about 30 pages into when i realized it had nothing to do with ethiopia. whoops.
i love good mistakes!

Comments

AmyF said…
I would have warned you! I cried though a set of contacts with that book--twice. I read in FL with book club and then again last summer with our women's summer book club at church. One of my all-time favorites. Did you see they have written a follow-up?
11:21 PM EDT
jeanette said…
can't wait to get this one simply based on your post. :)

were you thinking of There is no Me without You by Melissa Faye Green for the ET book? it's a good one..a bit dry when dealing with the staggering stats ...but heartbreaking.
7:59 PM EDT
Dianne said…
Same here. Amy F didn't warn me (though she claims she did). I'm a cryer (sp?), but that book took the award for most tissues used for one event.
2:27 PM EDT
Mary Lu said…
Oh my goodness. I LOVED this book. I never cry (maybe 4x/yr) at a movie or reading a book. But this one got me. I loved it and thought it was sooo good. What a great mistake! Love to ya'll, Aunt Mary Lu
10:13 PM EDT
kate o. said…
ha! i also thought it was a different book when i started reading it! too funny.

and like all you ladies, i cried, too.
2:34 PM EDT
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