On this cold grey winter day I sat and was absorbed by and absorbed this book of hope. I was struck by the way in which Manuel takes stories of horror of the recent war in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia, and used the words and stories of individuals whose hope is in God to show us that there is “hope in the ashes.” Manual integrates his own personal story into this series of stories. His struggles, his fears about himself – which, the honest reader must claim as his own – and ultimately, his surrender, to Jesus. As I read, I was touched as one who, a few years later traveled to many of these same places, and heard many similar stories. Indeed, for all troubled hearts and war-torn places, God is the “hope in the ashes.”
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