Review: Greater Love Has No Man Than This
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
In Sweet Child of Mine, Murray and Micaela Pura have penned a beautifully expressive, lyrical but heartrending tale of one man's courage to fight for his beliefs and of his daughter's unwavering faith...and their love for one another that transcends all.Canadian Jack Burns nurtures a dream in the very depths of his soul---a dream that causes him to don Union blue and fight for the freedom of all men in the Civil War. It is a dream that his eleven year old daughter questions as it is not her father's country he is fighting for. However, Kitt Burns does understand that her daddy is fighting for what he thinks is right and her prayers, poems, and letters to Jack never cease -- nor does her faith that her father will come back to her after the war.Kitt's letters boost the morale of Jack's whole regiment and they dub her Sweet Child of Mine, as her father often calls her. Jack has faith that his sweet child's prayers are being heard, and it gives him the courage to dream the impossible...to plant the flag atop Missionary Ridge and defeat the Confederate troops. Are his dreams futile and will he become just another casualty of this cruel war or will he return once again to his sweet child's arms?This is a brilliant story written by father/daughter duo, Micaela and Murray Pura, that depicts the cold realities of war...of those who fought in them and those who were left behind. I was not aware that so many Canadians also fought and lost their lives in the Civil War, and I gleaned many other interesting facts as well from reading this story. The Bible says, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This is the story of one such man. I highly applaud the authors of this highly emotive, poetically beautiful tale.