A Tale Of Four Brothers

Hi Richard,

I just completed reading chapters four through six of A Tale of Four Brothers. It touched me deeply as I could relate a bit to each of Herby’s sons. My husband and I lead a pretty simple life in Michigan- we have to - we‘re raising five kids. Both of us work close to the earth. He’s a landscape designer and I work in a greenhouse. On the way home from work today, I was struck by the beauty of the rural setting I live in. Instead of wishing I had a fancy car and house or wishing I could take a vacation to an exotic place, my heart was filled with gratefulness and I began to thank God for my humble life, for my healthy kids, for a loyal, hardworking husband and for God’s saving grace. I dare say I had one of those moments of being content with my position in life - just like James, Joshua, and Bones had.

Your story was very affirming to me that God sees us and blesses us right where we are in the small things. And we bring Him joy and great glory when we live our simple lives out of gratitude for what he has done. Thank you for sharing your story. It has blessed me tonight.

Sincerely,

Dianna Lanser
Nothing But The Blood

Truly heartfelt in your belief wonderfully conveyed, all the best to you Karen.

Thank you so much!! All the best to you as well.

Truly heartfelt in your belief wonderfully conveyed, all the best to you Karen.

Thanks for the honesty! God is great and can use our pain for His glory!

I appreciate your insight Eric.

Everyone will be seasoned with fire and every sacrifice with salt. That's harsh. Is that actually in the bible? That pushed me towards living a christian life

I wasn't sure what this meant at first. But it is now my understanding that salt was as valuable a commodity at the time as gold (or nearly as valuable) and that salt is a good thing to be seasoned with. And yes, I believe it is a parable in the Bible. Thank you for commenting and I will forward your comment to my father who authored the book.

Everyone will be seasoned with fire and every sacrifice with salt. That's harsh. Is that actually in the bible? That pushed me towards living a christian life

Thanks for the honesty! God is great and can use our pain for His glory!

Thank you for for reading and commenting Dianna, I appreciate your sentiments. I am in a bit of a unique situation in that I am serving as middle man for my father on this forum. Essentially this means that I edit and upload his work and he comes me to view his story and comments on this forum. Simply a matter of access to a computer and related computer skills sometimes absent in older generations Rest assured though that your support will be passed on and greatly appreciated.

John

Richard,

I read through chapter three of A Tale of Four Brothers. I believe that completes the story of Bones, Jennifer and Lana.

I especially appreciated reading your preface and the reason you wrote your book. I’m so glad God has brought you through the fire and that you are now ministering to the humble and meek of the earth. After all, they are the ones who are closest to Jesus heart. And I can imagine Him loving Bones and Jennifer and Lana as they work out a living, trying to do the best they can, loving and trusting. Even when life was difficult and they strayed from God, He was faithful to keep them in His sights until they needed Him.

I liked reading about how they met and their life on the shrimp boat. Their love for one another was really quite beautiful. I would have liked to see more emotion expressed in those parts of the story.

Your writing is easy to follow and very straight forward and I didn‘t notice any grammar mistakes or typo‘s to trip me up. When Jennifer is introduced, it seemed as if the tense changed or maybe you simply started writing in her point of view. It took me by surprise a little since the first chapter was clearly written in the narrators point of view. It’s really all right like that, as long as you stay in her point of view throughout the whole chapter. Or at least put a little space between the her point of view and Bones or the narrators.

I think you are doing a wonderful job celebrating the way the majority of Christians live life -- simply and humbly trying to follow and please the Savior. Highly starred.

Dianna Lanser
Nothing But The Blood

Richard,

I read through chapter three of A Tale of Four Brothers. I believe that completes the story of Bones, Jennifer and Lana.

I especially appreciated reading your preface and the reason you wrote your book. I’m so glad God has brought you through the fire and that you are now ministering to the humble and meek of the earth. After all, they are the ones who are closest to Jesus heart. And I can imagine Him loving Bones and Jennifer and Lana as they work out a living, trying to do the best they can, loving and trusting. Even when life was difficult and they strayed from God, He was faithful to keep them in His sights until they needed Him.

I liked reading about how they met and their life on the shrimp boat. Their love for one another was really quite beautiful. I would have liked to see more emotion expressed in those parts of the story.

Your writing is easy to follow and very straight forward and I didn‘t notice any grammar mistakes or typo‘s to trip me up. When Jennifer is introduced, it seemed as if the tense changed or maybe you simply started writing in her point of view. It took me by surprise a little since the first chapter was clearly written in the narrators point of view. It’s really all right like that, as long as you stay in her point of view throughout the whole chapter. Or at least put a little space between the her point of view and Bones or the narrators.

I think you are doing a wonderful job celebrating the way the majority of Christians live life -- simply and humbly trying to follow and please the Savior. Highly starred.

Dianna Lanser
Nothing But The Blood

Honorable sentiments that's awesome