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When the Stars Danced

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Many readers are familiar with Crying Wind's first two books, Crying Wind and My Searching Heart. This volume continues the story of her life. Crying Wind is a master story teller who uses her Native American background to bring truth and beauty to a story of laughter, pain, joy, adventure. Crying Wind's story is witness to the way God spans time and cultures with His love. Parents and children alike will enjoy this account of how Little Antilope, Lost Deer, Snow Cloud, and Spring Cloud grew up in their dual world with their parents Crying Wind and Don Stafford. Crying Wind tells her story compellingly, beautifully including how she adjusted to life afer Don's sudden death. This is a book for those who have seeking hearts, and all who enjoy beauty. The testimony to the strength of faith has never been more forcefully presented.

I really enjoyed this third enstallment by Crying Wind. This volume is more like a collection of stories rather than a direct narrative like the other two, "Crying Wind" and "My Searching Heart." I love the stories about people, like her best friend Polly Holly Rooney with whom she made a zillion sour pickles. Also old Miss Neal, the only one to remember Mark (her sweet heart) as he was before he died in World War I, and never gave up believing he would come back. I love the tender spiritual observations she draws from life. "I never come away from God with an empty bucket..." and "Trust is a blind horse running at breakneck speed with a young boy on his back." This is a very worthwhile book, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

I read the original book CRYING WIND several years ago. In fact, I've read it many times, it's that good. Then I bought MY SEARCHING HEART and was very excited when I learned there was another WHEN THE STARS DANCED. It took a long time to get it but it was worth the wait. Wish there were some way I could get in touch with this wonderful Christian Indian woman and tell her how inspired I am from her books and I sure hope that someday there will be another. I would recommend these three books to everyone who needs some true inspiration.

My husband and I read aloud Crying Wind's first 2 books, while traveling. We laughed, we cried, we believed we were reading a true story of the author's life. So, years later, I was eager to read this, her third book. Before I bought it, however, I learned that Crying Wind is not an Indian, even in part. She made a whole bunch up, and I am so disappointed in her. I went ahead and bought this third book, but I read it as fiction, because I don't trust anything the author says anymore. It was still a decent book to read, but I sure couldn't get my heart into it, and will never recommend it to my friends.