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Tears. The gospel is such good news. Patricia St. John just makes the gospel tangible and understandable for the cold, crusty hearts and the young, malleable ones, too.

“Children and Nature are very close together, and often Nature’s silence can do more to heal angry, unhappy children than any human words can” (41).

“…Your skill can never buy you love. It may, when you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time” (120).

Hard heart, rage, envy, revenge; spiritual dark vs light—elementary & clear gospel application

“…and by faith we asked Jesus to look after Dani. Every day in prayer we have asked God to hold him safe in His arms, and even when Dani fell, God did not let go of him. His arms were underneath him all the time. Even if he had been killed he would have been carried straight home to heaven. So let us dry our tears and go on trusting Hod to hold on to Dani and do the very best for him” (70).

A blessed truth.

Read aloud with the children: our last Patricia St. John book of the year. Already can see how beautifully she will weave the gospel into this story—as she has in her others.