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bickleyhouse's review
5.0
I first "met" the woman who calls herself "Olive Twist" in the blogosphere. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled across her blog, but I know why I kept going back to it. The stories that she shared, stories of her life, along with some other stories she has written, were inspirational and stirring. Then she compiled the life stories into an ebook, which I immediately grabbed hold of.
The stories in this book can be gut-wrenching and heart-warming. I found myself horrified, angered, sad, and delighted. I laughed and found myself in tears. The things that "Olive" and her siblings endured as children should never happen to anyone. But, sadly, they do. One thing that kept surfacing during her childhood was a thought that, perhaps, we should all consider well. As she and her sibling were taken away from their mother and placed in children's homes and foster homes, one thought kept rising up from their inner-most beings: What did we do wrong? That one, solitary thought probably hurt more than anything else in this biographical spiritual journey. Does anyone ever consider what the children are feeling in these situations?
Anyway, as Olive, herself, points out in this narrative, it truly is a wonder that she ever found Jesus (well, he found her, you know . . .), but she did, and in a most unlikely place.
It's a little hard to follow, chronologically, because it seems to jump around a bit, but I really didn't mind that. It doesn't seem to be so much a time-line narrative as simply a collection of stories about her life and spiritual journey. I heartily recommend this book.
The stories in this book can be gut-wrenching and heart-warming. I found myself horrified, angered, sad, and delighted. I laughed and found myself in tears. The things that "Olive" and her siblings endured as children should never happen to anyone. But, sadly, they do. One thing that kept surfacing during her childhood was a thought that, perhaps, we should all consider well. As she and her sibling were taken away from their mother and placed in children's homes and foster homes, one thought kept rising up from their inner-most beings: What did we do wrong? That one, solitary thought probably hurt more than anything else in this biographical spiritual journey. Does anyone ever consider what the children are feeling in these situations?
Anyway, as Olive, herself, points out in this narrative, it truly is a wonder that she ever found Jesus (well, he found her, you know . . .), but she did, and in a most unlikely place.
It's a little hard to follow, chronologically, because it seems to jump around a bit, but I really didn't mind that. It doesn't seem to be so much a time-line narrative as simply a collection of stories about her life and spiritual journey. I heartily recommend this book.
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