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Charity: True Stories of Giving and Receiving (Virtue Victorious)

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It's so a cold world out there. you are amid crowds of people who are blunt and icy. But in them are warm-heated people, who are willing to give their hands to you when you are in rainy days. This book Charity shows the deep and warm hearts in other persons. There are so many perons who have tears in their eyes. Charity illustrates the integrity of human spirits. Victories of man, victories of human, and victories of human being. Charity is a book of Jewelry which contains the true face of human and the true face of God.

I can't believe more people don't know about this book because it contains gems that really sparkle, that catch the light in profound or surprising ways. Its stories are all true and many of its American (and a few British) voices are distinctive.

Charity has been much in the news lately. This book gets inside charity---not, for the most part, big organizated institutional charities, but giving in a more personal way.

What goes through a person's head who has volunteered to take care of a sick stranger? Or of a young mother who is forced to take her little children to a soup kitchen to eat? We not only hear these people---much of the writing in the book is so vivid we feel as if we are seeing them, too.

Some stories really have global significance, as one by a reporter who lost his way in the mountains of Afghanistan and then finally was rescued and fed by an Afghani shepard. It was the American who needed the charity and it was given to him by a poor, poor Moslem in a war zone.

Only a few of Charity's stories seem silly or have pat endings---this is not your usual inspiration collection. I'm glad my sister gave me a copy because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered it. But now that I have, I would recommend it to almost everyone I know.