At a recent conference I met a gentleman who happens to edit 1 of those airline magazines that always competes with your legroom in an plane. A short time ago he sent me an email and asked if I had heard of a book called Same Kind of Unlike as Me and recommended that I read it. He seemed like a good plenty guy and the book had a dandy encompass, so I went alee and ordered it sight unseen (or nearly then). And what a book it turned out to be.

Aforementioned Kind of Dissimilar as Me, a book that is factual but could just as easily be fiction, tells the unlikely story of the unlikeliest of friends–Ron Hall and Denver Moore. Told in two voices, the book alternates between telling the story from the perspective of Ron and Denver.

Ron Hall is a wealthy international art dealer who travels the globe ownership and selling rare and expensive works of art. He has grown rich just has also grown selfish and has grown abroad from his family. When Ron Hall reluctantly volunteers at a homeless shelter (at the insistence of his wife) he soon comes into contact with Denver, a man his wife is convinced is going to alter the city. Denver grew up equally a sharecropper in Louisiana, living a life that seemed little different from the life of his ancestors i hundreds years before. He eventually walked away from the cotton fields and establish that, while life on the streets of Fort Worth was hard, it was easier than being a sharecropper. It was here, in a homeless shelter, that the two men met, i serving food and the other being a reluctant recipient of this charity.

Chef Jim and Deborah chatted easily while I mentally counterbalanced the ledger between pleasing my wife and contracting a terminal illness. I had to acknowledge that his idea seemed similar an easy way to first–serve the evening meal once a week, and we'd be in and out in three, four hours max. We could minister from backside the rusty steel serving counter, safely separated from the customers. And we could enter and exit through the rear kitchen door, thereby minimizing contact with those likely to hit usa up for money. The whole system seemed similar a good way for the states to fulfill Deborah's desire to help the homeless without our touching them or letting them touch usa.

Her vivid laugh pulled my attending dorsum into the room. "I think that sounds great, Jim!" she was saying. "I don't meet whatsoever reason why nosotros can't commencement tomorrow. In fact, let's just say you tin can count on us to serve every Tuesday until you hear otherwise."

"Praise the Lord!" Chef Jim said, this fourth dimension giving Deborah a great large Baptist hug. It did non sound great to me, merely Deborah had not asked me what I thought. She never did do much by commission.

At beginning unable to fissure Denver'south stony personality, Hall somewhen prevails and strikes up a friendship with a man worlds apart. They become fast friends who suffer a tragedy together and who soon abound in their love, respect and admiration of each other. Each homo teaches the other well-nigh life and faith. Somehow the story of the relationship between these ii men is fascinating and inspiring. Information technology offers a glimpse into two worlds that are nearly opposite and shows what happens when these worlds come into contact with each other. I can however hardly believe this was not a novel.

While the book showcases a fun sense of humor, there is also plenty of heart.

And nonetheless for all the courage I knew she had, she had shown this glimmer of fearfulness. Oh, how I loved her then. Fiercely. The passion you feel down in your guts where no 1 else can see and only you know its frightening force. I could remember that at that place were times in our nearly three decades of marriage that I had loved her less than at that moment, and guilt pierced me like a fasten. Though she had always given unconditionally, I had oftentimes not been willing to practice so in return, She has deserved better than she's gotten from me, I idea, and nearly drowned in a wave of regret thirty years deep.

Betwixt the heart and the humor is some good theology, but, unfortunately, also some that would require assertive the word of the writer rather than finding any footing in Scripture. For example, in that location is talk of a "visitation" where a expressionless person returns to world, nonetheless briefly, to offer comfort and encouragement. This is not something the Bible tells united states of america we can or should look. There was also some theology that was suspicious and seemed to reveal an agreement of the gospel that was somewhat incomplete. I found these distracting and disappointing, merely not fatal to the book.

So while Aforementioned Kind of Unlike as Me is not necessarily a book I'd recommend for its theology, information technology is a book that I'd recommend for a stirring and unforgettable story, and for the pure joy of reading it. This one caught me by surprise and I enjoyed every minute of it. I can pretty well guarantee that someone will purchase the film rights to this story, so why not buy it now so you tin can say that you read the volume earlier you lot ever heard of the movie!

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