You and Me and the Blackthorn Tree: Verses to the King

by Ron Brackin

Christianity is a roller coaster ride. Whoever says it ain’t, don’t got a ticket.

One day, you’re toppling Philistines like ten-pins. Next day, you’re hiding in a cave, surrounded by 400 losers.

Like David—and every Christian who ever took Jesus for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, Ron Brackin has his ups and downs, expressed herein in 86 bits of verse.

131 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2013

About the author

The author of the international bestseller, Son of Hamas, Ron Brackin has traveled extensively in the Middle East as an investigative journalist. He was in the West Bank and Gaza during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, on assignment in Baghdad and Mosul after the fall of Iraq and more recently with the rebels and refugees of Southern Sudan and Darfur. He has contributed articles and columns to many publications, including USA Today and The Washington Times. His other books include: Sweet Persecution; Between Two Fires; Iraq, My Handiwork; Around the World in 80 Days . . . the Rest of the Story; The Gospel according to Dracula; and You and Me and the Blackthorn Tree. He was a broadcast journalist with WTOP-AM, Post-Newsweek’s all-news radio station in Washington D.C. and weekend news anchor on Metromedia’s WASH-FM. And he served as a congressional press secretary under the Reagan Administration.