Product Description
Cookin' At Cook is the answer to these questions for one family. Enter the world of the McClelland family. Just when one-year-old Loren seems to be healing from a devastating illness, he is diagnosed with a rare disease. His only proven hope is a harrowing bone marrow transplant. Embarking on a roller coaster ride the author dubs the "Texas Giant," the McClellands make the fateful decision to go for broke.
Without guarantees, Mom, Loren and Grandma head off to Fort Worth, Texas and Cook Children's Medical Center to seek Loren's healing. Dad, Patrick and Patricia are left to keep the family going. Will it work? What happens if it doesn't?
Buy the book and find out. Join Loren in his world as he takes you through the ups and downs of the transplant process...well, Loren calls it a "transperson" since he isn't a plant. Look at the world from the baby's point of view and learn what it means to truly "have the faith of a child." Witness the exchanges between Loren and his father, Jim, when Jim doesn't keep people informed of Loren's progress.
Through the use of humor and the persona of a child, Jim McClelland has created a book that will help you through good times and bad. Don't let the title fool you. This is a book about life written in the languages of love, humor and grief. McClelland looks through the eyes of a one-year-old to bring you his unique interpretation of life and biblical passages.
Is Cookin' at Cook a book about bone marrow transplants? Sure, but it is more than that. Whether it is a loss of a job, a love or a myriad of other of life's daily disappointments, this is a book that will teach you how to live through the pain - even when all seems lost.
Will Cookin' at Cook teach you to be a better chef? Not unless you're looking for Soul Food. In that case, you will find no better cookbook on the planet.
From the Author
Life doesn't consist solely of times of joy followed by times of sorrow. Both aspects of life are intermingled and if you look hard enough, you will find the good in any tragic event. So it is with Loren. God gave us a little boy that nearly died at birth and, just when we thought we were over with the fear of losing our precious child, we were slapped with an even more devastating disease.
The key to our survival was Loren's indestructible good humor and the support of our friends through prayer. In Jesus, we found a God who loves us unconditionally and who would help us weather the good and the bad. In God, we were able to keep going even in the darkest times.
That is the message of Cookin' At Cook. Regardless of what the problem is, regardless of the odds against you, if you remember three little words, "Never Stop Believing," you can never lose. Even if the things you see say that you have lost, with God one never loses.
