The River – Michael Neale
Sooo good! So good, is The River by Michael Neale. I read it in five hours and kept it in my
mind for a while, before penning my thoughts about this book. The Author gets you right in the very first
pages and you can’t leave until the book closes.
A five year old boy loses his river-guide father who
embodies everything that this boy knows to be true and good about his
world. He loses his father to the river and
struggles through growing up with an ever present depression that threatens to
swallow him up. His journey through life
brings him back to the river and he encounters the river as he was not able to
as a five year old boy watching his father drown. He experiences love, release, learns to
forgive and find life once more – a life connected to the river. This book is so very beautifully written, you
can’t help falling in love with the characters portrayed and feeling a part of
their story.
I hadn’t heard of Michael Neale before reading this book and
in the follow up notes, discovered that this was his first book. A Dove award winning song writer, he captures
the essence of our life stories, yours mine and Gabriel’s. The core statement of the book, “You were
made for the book” sums up the theme that we are made for adventure, for the
unknown and that settling for what is safe and known is never in our best
interest. Neale puts it this way: “The
only true joy and fulfillment in life comes from living out our purpose and
destiny in the greater story of life,
which I believe is God’s story. Read
this book and enjoy it as I did.
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