BOOKS I FINISHED - APRIL 2022

 

The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden, written by Kevin DeYoung and illustrated by Don Clark

This beautifully illustrated children's book weaves the story of various Bible characters together to show Jesus as our redeemer, the innocent one paying the penalty for our sins.

p. 107, Our story is the story of God doing what we can't, in order to make up for us doing what we shouldn't.

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope, written by Wendy Holden Defying all odds, three women, strangers to each other and separated from their husbands, concealed their pregnancies at multiple concentration camps and from Josef Mengele. They eventually gave birth under unfathomable circumstances, their babies lived, and all three miracle kids met each other sixty-five years later.

The atrocities committed to human beings during the Holocaust will always be horrifically appalling, the dangerous acts of compassion by those in positions to help truly admirable, and the fierce determination of those on the receiving end of unfathomable brutality to keep moving forward as long as possible incredibly inspiring.

A Long Walk to Water, written by Linda Sue Park

Based on the true story of a boy separated from his family during the Sudanese civil war, this novel is about his trek across Africa and about a young girl who spends eight hours walking every day to fetch water for her family. Their stories are of perseverance and hope, a determination to keep taking the literal and figurative next step. 

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