Gideon's Gift
by Karen Kingsbury is a masterpiece: it is extremely moving. I cried most of the time while I was reading it. You know that I follow homeless's stories with pleasure: this one presented by Karen is a beautiful story plenty of gratitude and goodness in the largest sense of the word.
Earl is a homeless: with a story pretty sad behind, with the time became a man pretty hard and difficult to be reached emotively, because closed to the external world.
Brian is struggling with a complicated existence, because her oldest daughter, Gideon suffers of cancer. She is in remission, but they spent too much money for treatments and celebrating a proper and good Christmas is a mirage.
Gideon, the 8 years old girl sicks, helps her parents in a refectory dedicated to homeless people. No sure why, Gideon thinks that that grumpy Earl deserves some attention and wants to present him something special for Christmas.
Being grumpy, and being so closed, at first Earl won't understand the precious gesture of the kid; a gesture that will change his existence for better.
This story teaches us - I can't tell you more - that sometimes an act of kindness, also received from unknown people, can, sometimes, for someone, make a big difference.
And let's remember what Gideon repeated several time to Earl:
"Christmas miracles happen to those who believe."
A beautiful Christmas-Story!
Highly recommended.
I thank Faithwords for the copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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