Friends don’t let friends….go without books. I love that I
have friends who think and talk books. We even share books, or make suggestions
to each other about good books we’ve read.
Last week I received a book in the mail from my friend,
Sande, who lives in Oklahoma. She isn’t just a friend, we’ve known each other
since our teen years. Although our lives have taken different paths, we still
know each other very well. However, I don’t think she knows how much I love
true stories – good true stories.
The book she sent, City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell,
isn’t just a true story, but it is a story about missionaries to China. Ministry
is dear to my heart. I especially love missionary stories – probably because as
a young girl, I felt called into ministry to be a missionary. Alas, life
happened, I made some bad choices (I married at sixteen to a young man who didn’t
serve God), and thought I’d never fulfill the calling on my life.
But God
is faithful. His Word says in Romans
11:29 (NIV) “For God’s gifts and
his call are irrevocable.” In 1992 I went to work for Phoenix Teen
Challenge. Teen Challenge is a Home Mission Ministry under the umbrella of The
Assemblies of God.
I am currently working on my memoirs from my nineteen years at Teen Challenge, so receiving a book like City of Tranquil Light seems especially appropriate right now. Thank you, Sande, and all my other friends who share books with me.
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