Week 11

I finished the book!  Here I thought I'd be done with this a month ago.  No such luck.  But I took the time and finished it yesterday.  I closed the book with tears in my eyes.  And the desire to want to do more.  I love to write.  The Help was about so many things, but one of the topics was Skeeter's desire to be a writer.  Not just a writer, but someone who wrote about something that meant something in this world.  She wanted to make a difference.  And I believe she did.  What a great book.  What a sad time in history.  I think so often we think...

that was a long time ago.

And then I see the dates listed in the book.  1964.  That wasn't that long ago.  How can we be living in a time when just almost fifty years ago, life happened like that.  And people let it happen.  It is unbelievable to me.  It is too much for me to wrap my mind around.  I can't imagine treating someone like those women were treated.  And yet...it happened.  Not that long ago.

I think there are several things in our history that we'd rather turn our cheeks to.  They were horrible.  And if we don't talk about it...it maybe didn't happen.  But this happened. I think the book is an incredible way for people to see just a glimpse of what took place just not that long ago.  Children will read this story and think to themselves...did this really happen?  And the ugly truth is that it did.  But the beautiful truth is that because someone was courageous enough to stand up for others...things changed.  And the wonderful thing about this particular book is that because a woman stood up and used her writing to tell the world a perspective that might not have otherwise been heard...things changed.  What an amazing story.  What an amazing book.  I am anxious to see the movie, but don't want it to change how I view the book.  I have an image in my head from reading and I am afraid the movie won't do it justice.  I guess I'll just have to see. 

Anyway, I believe I'll wrap up this PRABE project with a few more devotionals and some light reading.  Thanks to my attempt to finish the book yesterday...the laundry is still rolling through...as I type.  It was worth finishing the book though.  Completely and totally worth it. 

Amy