April Read/Sherri

Title: Small Miracles of Love and Friendship

 Author(s):Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal

Sherri's Read: 

“Small Miracles of Friendship, Remarkable Coincidences of Warmth and Devotion “ is a compilation of short stories by authors Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal.  Each true story is told with a comment at the end. The authors goal is to make their readers see how miracles are all around us. We just need to open our eyes and become aware of our surroundings and how crossing paths with others with positive energy can truly affect our journey on earth. Love and friendships can make a major influence on all of us, as long as we allow ourselves to be aware of all the positive gifts surrounding us. They also hope this will lead to people cherishing and celebrating the magic of human interaction that can bring more positive energy to the world. Too often humans ignore the positive and hold on to the negative experiences; we are challenged with in our life’s journey.  The stories are all about causes and effects that came out of an act of humane actions that changed the characters lives. Kindness is an act towards making this a better world. Humans need to become more humane then mankind will be closer to living in a peace filled world.

     

One of my favorites is a story contained three characters; one a pregnant Italian newly wed and two young brothers. The young boys spent a summer entertaining her while her husband was at work. The older brother was in charge of his three year old brother. During their visits with the mother to be, the younger brother stroked her belly. At the end of the summer they moved and didn’t get to see the baby. Years later the younger brother got very ill and needed a specialist to save his life. The doctor was the same baby he had stroked so many years before. There are other stories of uniting souls in marriage or in friendship. Some are of strangers changing lives or saving lives. There are stories of war and of peace. Most of the stories are about one person changing the journey of another person in a magical way as to leave the reader in awe of the mysteries in life that can’t be explained away. The little things that make life so magical.