Book Review - Have a Little Faith - a True Story

Have a Little Faith a true story by Mitch Albom is a beautiful beautiful beautiful book and if you are lucky enough to pick it up or have someone give you a copy please read it. Have a Little Faith is Albom's first non-fiction book since Tuesday's with Morrie and it has the same qualities: humor, compassion, humility and insight.

This book is the story of Albom's relationship with his hometown Rabbi, a convicted felon running a church in the middle of a decaying Detroit and God.

Albom had known the Rabbi since he was a little boy. The Rabbi was a man filled with wisdom and humor and a heart that continually searched and guided. A man that Albom really did not see until he was asked by the Rabbi himself asked him to deliver his eulogy. The convicted felon was a man Albom met while searching for answers to the questions he had begun to ask once he began his journey with the "Reb". A man who was involved with drugs and guns and killing. A man who one day called out to God and asked to be saved and then spent the rest of his life trying to walk in the light. God, well some will say that God was always there. Waiting for Albom and all to come with the questions. To ask the questions and begin to maybe understand that there just might be a few answers.

This book documents Albom's journey. How his relationship with his Rabbi changes once he begins to see the Rabbi as a man, a man of God but first and foremost a man like all of us. Albom's conversations with the Rabbi make him question his beliefs and his purpose along with awakening an amazing sense of gratitude for all that he has received. Albom's awakening leads him to the church in the middle of Detroit. A church that looks like it belongs in the middle of a war zone but that holds the power; the power of truth and of justice and of true redemption.

Along the way you get to meet the Rabbi's wife and the felon turned man of god's wife. You meet members of both congregations. Those who have been blessed from the beginning and those who have just recently felt the touch of what may be God. You learn how these lives are so different and yet on the most primal level the same. How all of our lives are really the same. This book asks questions and maybe even answers a few asked but what it does most of all is give you hope.

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