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Victory!: The Life of José M. Mejia
You met him 10 years ago and were inspired by his message of hope and salvation. You joined in the excitement of seeing him healed miraculously after being paralyzed by polio. You also cried with him as you experienced seeing his family suffer through the civil war that ripped apart his homeland of El Salvador. Then you traveled with him to the United States and witnessed what the country is like for the lowest class of society. Finally, you rejoiced with him as he celebrated the fruit of his hard work, graduating from high school with many honors as an adult. Now, reconnect with José M. Mejia as he has updated the original book in this second edition, with double the content of the original, giving readers deeper insight into his life than he was able to give of himself in the first edition and filling in the past ten years of his life. Join with José as he further celebrates the VICTORY that God has performed in his own and in others' lives.
151 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2021
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May 1, 2021
I confess. I'm biased. You see, I'm married to the author. Yep, I told you I was biased! But it was in reading the 1st edition of this book that I fell in love with José Mejia. We had been matched on eHarmony, but I was a bit skeptical. After all, what kind of man would be interested in starting a relationship with a woman with a major health disability when he didn't even know her?
Then I read how he once had an even greater disability. He was actually paralyzed by polio as a child, and he was healed miraculously and instantaneously when he was about 6. Amazing, right? Now it's time to give you the goosebumps. All my life, my mom has told me that she started praying for the man I would one day marry since before I was born. Jose was healed about the age of 6. How much older than I is he? Six years! God took the prayers of a woman for a little boy 3,000 miles away from her and used them to defy the doctors and make this boy walk again!
Reading Victory showed me the amazing heart I have continued to see every day in my husband. By the time I finished reading the book two hours after starting it, I knew I had found my soulmate! And we've been happily married 8 years!
It was with joy that I was able to use my gifts as an editor to write the second edition with José. In this edition, we doubled the number of words, focusing more on the experience and not just the actions.
How often do you get to read a first- person account of living through the cruel, evil Salvadorian civil war? Or of farming with animals, such as oxen, the way people have been farming for millennia? Or even more rarely, how often do you read a first-person account of what it is like to be an undocumented immigrant and fear deportation from the country you've lived in 60% of your life?
Victory is a fast reading book, and though there is a lot of sadness in it, such as the death of two of Jose's brothers, one age 14 and the other a baby, due to the war, the title shares the running theme throughout: With God, we have VICTORY in everything!
Then I read how he once had an even greater disability. He was actually paralyzed by polio as a child, and he was healed miraculously and instantaneously when he was about 6. Amazing, right? Now it's time to give you the goosebumps. All my life, my mom has told me that she started praying for the man I would one day marry since before I was born. Jose was healed about the age of 6. How much older than I is he? Six years! God took the prayers of a woman for a little boy 3,000 miles away from her and used them to defy the doctors and make this boy walk again!
Reading Victory showed me the amazing heart I have continued to see every day in my husband. By the time I finished reading the book two hours after starting it, I knew I had found my soulmate! And we've been happily married 8 years!
It was with joy that I was able to use my gifts as an editor to write the second edition with José. In this edition, we doubled the number of words, focusing more on the experience and not just the actions.
How often do you get to read a first- person account of living through the cruel, evil Salvadorian civil war? Or of farming with animals, such as oxen, the way people have been farming for millennia? Or even more rarely, how often do you read a first-person account of what it is like to be an undocumented immigrant and fear deportation from the country you've lived in 60% of your life?
Victory is a fast reading book, and though there is a lot of sadness in it, such as the death of two of Jose's brothers, one age 14 and the other a baby, due to the war, the title shares the running theme throughout: With God, we have VICTORY in everything!
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