Charity: True Stories of Giving and Receiving (Virtue Victorious)

By Rosemerry Trommer

Book Overview

Each story and poem in this volume is a small treasure, as are the lovely old engravings portraying charity in action. Some acts of giving may appear simple -- such as one in which a tired and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966957369
• ISBN13: 9780966957365
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Red Rock Press, Incorporated
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

really touching, truly humane stories

It's so a cold world out there. you are amid crowds of people who are blunt and icy. But in them are warm-heated people, who are willing to give their hands to you when you are in rainy days. This book Charity shows the deep and warm hearts in other persons. There are so many perons who have tears in their eyes. Charity illustrates the integrity of human spirits. Victories of man, victories of human, and victories of human being. Charity is a book of Jewelry which contains the true face of human and the true face of God.

Like Finding a Treasure!

I can't believe more people don't know about this book because it contains gems that really sparkle, that catch the light in profound or surprising ways. Its stories are all true and many of its American (and a few British) voices are distinctive. Charity has been much in the news lately. This book gets inside charity---not, for the most part, big organizated institutional charities, but giving in a more personal way.What goes through a person's head who has volunteered to take care of a sick stranger? Or of a young mother who is forced to take her little children to a soup kitchen to eat? We not only hear these people---much of the writing in the book is so vivid we feel as if we are seeing them, too. Some stories really have global significance, as one by a reporter who lost his way in the mountains of Afghanistan and then finally was rescued and fed by an Afghani shepard. It was the American who needed the charity and it was given to him by a poor, poor Moslem in a war zone. Only a few of Charity's stories seem silly or have pat endings---this is not your usual inspiration collection. I'm glad my sister gave me a copy because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered it. But now that I have, I would recommend it to almost everyone I know.