The second book in Joe L. Wheeler's My Favorite Stories collection offers a delightful group of stories about miracles and divine interventions that will appeal to old and young alike.
Joe Wheeler has been labeled many things: as Father Christmas because of his editing/compiling America’s longest-running Christmas of story series — Christmas in My Heart (now in its 18th season); as one of America’s leading story anthologists (56 story collections by twelve publishing houses); as the world’s foremost authority on life and times of the frontier writer Zane Grey (he is co-founder and executive director of the international Zane Grey’s West Society); as a biographer, having written full-length biographies of Abraham Lincoln and St. Nicholas and shorter biographies of Louisa May Alcott, Abbie Farwell Brown, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, Grace Richmond, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Lew Wallace; and as a Renaissance Man because of his encyclopedic interest in everything (popular culture as well as the academic); and his master’s degree in the teaching of History, his master’s degree in English (thesis on Utopian and Dystopian literature), and his Vanderbilt doctorate in English (History of Ideas emphasis).
Because of all these variables, and stirring in his 71 books (and counting), this blog series promises to be unlike any other — and that’s why he titles the series, “UNCHARTED WATERS.”
I gave this book a 5 Star for its content. I confess I would have enjoyed the stories more in the first person. I think it would have felt more personal. With that said the author did an exquisite job choosing the stories for this edition. Every story touched a different part of my heart. I recommend to the person stuck in the rut of mundane life. Only for the sheer fact that each story pulls you into a supernatural realm and out of the everyday monotony of life. Enjoy this book, use it as a springboard for thankfulness and praise to a God that doesn’t want to be invisible.
I don't believe in coincidences so these miracle stories were a big draw to me. God has performed miracles in my own life, so based on my own experiences, it is easy to believe. If you are like me, believing God, then you will love these stories. I now want to read all of the books this author has written.