The true stories in Through Dark Places are in turn heartbreaking and inspiring as they explore the human response to loss, mortality, and the intervening hand of God. The men and women at the center of each account face life-changing experiences that shake and strengthen their faith, forcing them to grapple with fundamental questions about the meaning of life. Unfolding through reflections and flashbacks, the narratives show us that full understanding of the momentous events in our lives often does not come until many years later. And sometimes the most piercing grief cannot be allayed except by a hope and faith for a re-union in the beautiful palaces of God’s eternal kingdom.
In Guardian Angels, a boat ride on a sunny afternoon triggers an avalanche of memories when the main character relives a near-collision during a harrowing flight forty years earlier.
It Will Never Go Away recounts the tender companionship between two young brothers and the day a tragic automobile accident changed their family forever.
In The Longest Week, an anguished father struggles to find hope in familiar hymns while his daughter clings to life after a traumatic brain injury.
Several of the accounts take us back in time or across oceans. When Death Conquers the Will to Live relates the experience of a World War II pilot captured by Nazis and taken to the Buchenwald death camp. Years later, he wrestles with how to tell his children of the brutality he experienced and the subsequent mid-winter march that nearly killed him.
In The Hand of God, a young woman named My-Uyen becomes one of millions desperately fleeing bomb-ravaged Vietnam after the war. On a pitch-black night, while boarding a dilapidated fishing boat, My-Uyen misses a step and falls toward the churning engines below. An unseen hand plucks her from the air, sparing her certain death – just the first of the miracles that see her through the dangerous journey to America.
Through Dark Places is an affecting testament to the resilience of the human spirit, the transformative love of God, and the power of faith to illuminate even the darkest paths.
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