Together, the text and the illustrations make a very special book, one can be read over and over again as our children grow up, and unless protected very carefully will probably be loved to death. This is definitely a book for the experienced reader, and definitely a book which an experienced reader should be given. We hear the Gospel every Sunday at Mass, and perhaps at times take it for granted. It would be a rare child indeed who would read the Gospels and the Acts for what they are, the most incredible adventure story ever lived and told. The Glorious Impossible tells the story of Jesus' life, from the Annunciation to Pentecost, as the story of a gloriously impossible mystery.
Possible things are easy to believe.
The Glorious Impossibles are what bring joy to our hearts, hope to our lives, songs to our lips. Madeline L'Engle's narrates the events of the life of Jesus and tells about all the gloriously impossible things which happened when God sent his message of love to His people. It makes a fascinating story. There were a great many wonderful things which happened, all of them Glorious Impossibles and all of them bringing the reader a greater sense of how far beyond our understanding God's Love really is. The illustrations which accompany this extraordinary text were reproduced from transparencies of frescos from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua painted nearly seven hundred years ago by Florentine Giotto.