This is a good book, long, slow to start, some hard words but worth the read. I love a book that keeps me reading and that doesn't quite fit with how I think it should go or end for that matter. This is an ending you will never see coming. This book is about twin brothers that were born in Ethiopia and left orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance. The story involves, medicine, poverty, death, revolution, love, betrayal and miracles. "The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you." We all have special gifts and when we don't use them, I think, everyone misses out. We are called to use our gifts for His glory, and what wonderful things can happen due to those gifts and Him using us. "We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime." "God will judge us by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace." I love that statement. Sometimes I think doctrines are the very thing that separates us instead of helping those in need to bring us together. "All sons should write down every word of that their fathers have to say to them. I tried. Why did it take an illness for me to recognize the value of time with him? It seems we humans never learn." Value the people in your life that you have been given, you don't know how long you will have them. "A mother loves her children equally...but sometimes one child needs more help, more attention, to get by in the world." This was such a poignant book, I highly recommend it.
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