Mitch Albom returns with another heart-warming memoir as a follow up for his best-sellers Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Chance among others.
Have A Little Faith (A True Story) has two similar stories about faith but from two different religions. One story is about Mitch's childhood rabbi's last years starting on the day he asked Mitch to do his eulogy. The other is about Pastor Henry's life story - from his troubled past to how he ended up as a pastor.
I just stumbled across this book during a trip to the bookstore with my boyfriend one day. I didn't even know that Mitch Albom had released a new book, but having read his other books, I knew that I just had to get a copy of this one.
Having finished the book just this afternoon, it made me sit back and reflect on just how strong my faith is in my religion. Mitch Albom showed that it doesn't matter what religion you're from, as long as you have faith in one God, it transcends all boundaries of gender, race, culture AND religion. It doesn't matter if one is Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindi, or Buddhist... all that matters in the long run is your faith in God and what you do with your life in order to fulfill the mission that God has you written down for. In the case of Rabbi Albert Lewis (fondly called the Reb), his faith led him to save a deteriorating Jewish community and establish it to a bigger, stronger community. This book also shows that it doesn't even matter what background you come from. Pastor Henry Covington started out as a smoker, alcoholic, drug addict, convict and still ended up as a pastor who takes care of the homeless in one part of Detroit.
Like what his other books have been imparting, Have A Little Faith reminds each of us of our faith and that we should embrace and believe in it -- whatever it takes...
The Verdict: Four and a half Stars
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