A Pearl of a Story
- Fiction Candle
- Jul 17, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 10, 2019
The Fiction Story:
This Christian Fiction novella is just 40 pages long so lets give it a bunch of bonus points, right off the bat, for being short and succinct!
The story takes place in a fictional, but typical Appalachian town and uses genuine vernacular which surprisingly is not all that troubling to read and may even add to the character's imaginability. It's harder to get past the cover, so lets deploy the old adage and judge this book by it's content. Once in among the pages the reader will find some beautiful pearls.
It all starts when a young, teen-aged girl, Savannah Willoughby develops a burden to pray for two uncles whom she remembers fondly but the rest of her town seems to have reason to shun. The uncles, two wayward brothers, suffer a bad reputation due to a crime to which they confessed and for which they were convicted. But the truth is never that simple. It will take a lot of prayer as well as a supernatural turn of events before they find reconciliation with their family and friends.
Savannah recruits her mother to help locate the pair and together they find them in a near by town. They learn that they have been released from prison two years earlier and are currently leading productive lives working in a coal mine.
Their reunion proves to be timely; just four days later the mine they work in collapses trapping them and five others. All the praying that Savannah Willoughby has been doing is not done being answered.
The Gospel Story:
This is a story about reconciliation, forgiveness, and the power of prayer. It even has a touch of the supernatural. But above all it is a salvation story. At about the mid-way point, there is a refreshingly strong and thorough gospel presentation, which can not be mistaken!
When Savannah and her mother meet up with the estranged brothers they have more in mind than a simple reunion with family. They want nothing less than to see the two reconciled to God. What follows is the story's heart and the true answer to Savannah's prayers. Her uncles are more than receptive.
Favorite line: "Jesus is so good and so filled with mercy that he even prayed to His Father that he would forgive the very men who drove the nails into his hands."
It would seem that the men were reached just in time because a few days later the entire county would be focused on a cave-in where the two are among the trapped.
We'll leave the resolution to the curious reader. But lets point out something that might be easy to miss from start to finish in this story - that is, it all started with a young girl's burden to prayer for her shunned uncles.
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