by Mark Finley
Specs:
Paper back
Size - 4 ½ x 7
Wt. - 2.7 oz.
Pgs. - 122
Publisher -
Review and Herald
Table of Contents:
1 Sold for Six Bottles of
Cheap Wine
2 Drug Dealers at the Door
3 When Life Isn’t Fair
4 Death in the Crib
5 Huck Finn’s Prayers
6 Escape From Hell’s Kitchen
7 Talking to the Dead Can be Dangerous
8 Mysteries of the Mummies
9 Rest Assured
10 The Question My Priest Couldn’t Answer
11 Economic Survival in Tough Times
12 Wrestling in the Baptistry
13 Caught by a Cult or Captured by the Truth?
Excerpt:
Teenaged Artyom felt that his future was as bleak as the Siberian countryside where he’d been abandoned by alcoholic parents. Then he learned a life-changing secret — he was on God’s mind, because God’s concern for us never ends.
The Siberian wind whipped the snow into huge drifts. The biting cold stung Artyom’s tear-stained face. With his head down and shoulders slumped, he slowly trudged through the cold night. He knew that within a few minutes he’d be at the train station. At least it would be warm inside. He just couldn’t stand it at home any longer. Both his father and mother drank to excess. In some ways, his life was like other Russian school children ― biology, math, literature, Russian history ― but in other ways, it was remarkably different. He spent a great deal of his time trying to stay out of his parent’s way. When they got drunk, which was often, abuse was inevitable.
Artyom didn’t now that something was missing. He was only a boy fighting for survival. He couldn’t know that even then a God of whom he had no knowledge was watching over him, a Communist child, in Siberia.
When Artyom was 9, his parents separated. The children went with their mother, who frequently left Artyom and his little sister Nadia alone. Their mother couldn’t hold down a steady job, and she was regularly drunk. One day, in an intoxicated act of desperation, she tucked identification documents into the pocket of 4-year-old Nadia’s coat and abandoned the little girl in a railway station.
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