Review: Three Inspirational Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2011
These three stories were a free download for the Kindle.  I found them to be very well-written and worth reading.  In the first one, WATER, a homeless man, who once was very successful in his job and family life, has lost it all, and is now living on the street.  He stands along the road, holding up his sign for work, but gets the usual looks and shouts of "Get a job!"  He's fortunate this day, because he receives some donations from kind people and he can eat and take a shower.  But it's what he does later on with his leftover money that makes this story. This is a story of inspiration and showing that good deeds do indeed get passed on.The second story, ANGEL'S SONG, is a bit different.  This one takes place in a different world, one with dual suns.  The author tells us that it is a companion short story to the novel "The Thorn" book one of the "The Chronicles of Gan."  Jacob's father had been killed by a strike of lightning near a tree, and the tree stood as it had since the lightning strike. Jacob always avoids the tree, even looking at it, as he goes to help an older man and to bring food to him.  The older man, named Eder, likes Jacob, who is still a teenaged boy.  One day Eder reports that he has to go away and he wants Jacob to stay at his house and tend to his duties for him until he returns. Jacob's mother agrees, and it is then that Jacob knows that his mother trusts him and considers him a man.What transpires after this shows the religious and spiritual nature of the author and the story.  This is evident throughout the three stories.  Even though this story takes place in a different time and a different world, it is relevant to our world and to coming-of-age stories.The third story is WATER.  This short story is based on the healing at the pool, a biblical story.  To anyone familiar with the book of John, the answer is given in the description of the man who comes to the character of Moshe and says, "Wilt thou be made whole?"  I thought this was a very tender story of a man who went wrong and later on wishes he hadn't.  The outcome some will probably know.These stories are worth reading, just for the messages in them and for a nice collection of inspirational stories.