Reviews for Forty Days with the Savior: Preparing Your Heart for Easter

The average rating for Forty Days with the Savior: Preparing Your Heart for Easter based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-17 00:00:00 Richard Lawson I really enjoy this book, I have read it a number of years during lent.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-02-18 00:00:00 Randy Hall This is a wise and wonderful book. I've not quite finished, but it has pulled me through. Father Leffingwell takes an interim pastorate as he needs to continue to make some money to keep his son Philip, who is dying of AIDS, safe, warm and cared for. Halfway through the book, Philip dies, but by then one has been caught up in Father Leffingwell's duties and concerns for his parishioners and their problems. One can see the compassion and wisdom in how he deals with the people and families he encounters, and though he is almost 70, he enjoys being useful and people who had left the congregation are coming back. He is asked to become the permanent pastor, but declines. Throughout, he is concerned for Mark, a street boy who has been abandoned most of his life, but responds to Father Leffingwell's overtures, and comes around periodically. The good Father has a burden on his heart for Mark, but has to deliver bad news to Mark about a man who was a good friend to Mark, but Henry has died of an overdose. When Mark hears this, he disappears again. I will stop there, but some good things are still to happen. I would strongly encourage anyone to pick up this book and read it. ( I picked it up as a library castaway.)