The Misadventure in BullehLand

I just finished reading a book, Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom, which so happen he is one of my favourite writer since I read his book 5 People You Meet in Heaven few years ago. His best selling non-fiction "Tuesday With Morrie" was an instant hit and was adapted into a movie as well. His latest project "Have a Little Faith" is another wonderful non-fiction, no doubt. Although the story might be almost the same like Morrie but faith was all about in this new book.The book is really heart warming and a story told by a writer with soul. Here is what the book is all about;

Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an 82-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he’d left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor – a reformed drug dealer and convict – who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Mitch observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi, embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Mitch and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers and histories are different, Albom begins to realize a striking unity between the two worlds - and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor’s wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life’s purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man’s journey, but it is everyone’s story.

From a Sermon by the Reb,1958

"A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class. She danced into the kitchen, where her mother was preparing dinner.

" 'Mom,guess what?' She squealed, waving the drawing.

"Her monther never looked up.

" 'What?' she said, tending to the pots.

" 'Guess what?' the child repeated, waving the drawing.

" 'What?' , the mother said, tending to the plates.

" 'Mom, you're not listening.'

" 'Sweetie, yes I am.'

" 'Mom', the child said, 'you're not listening with your eyes'. "

You know what, I almost cried reading this during my train ride back home after work. There was a part where it reminds me of my late dad, when he was in the ICU and how also the eulogy that I've prepared for my dad's funeral service.

This is one of the greatest book that I've read so far. Give it a try.