Product Description The inspiring story of one man's true encounters during the tragic Amish Schoolhouse shootings. A message for everyone developed through his meetings with all those involved: the Amish families and children, the schoolteacher, the gunman's family, State Troopers and thousands more.
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inspirational, humbling, revealing, moving August 18, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard about this book on some news program. All I know was some painter interviewed the Amish and the family of the guy who committed the crimes in the school house. WELL.. that is not what this book is about. This book is about an evolution of human connection, community, compassion and synchronicity. This massive, sick tragedy hits this small Eastern Pennsylvania Amish community and it sends ripples of spiritual awareness around the world. Through the conduit of this one man, Bruce Becker, lives are changed. He simply painted a peaceful image of an Amish school bell (that he purchased at a flea market) coincidentally while the crime was taking place..maybe he was destined to paint that, on that exact day, at that exact time.
When he shows it to one person a chain of celestine-experiences begin to happen. People around the country are drawn to this painting, this painter, and the people in the tragedy. He is almost dumbfounded by the explosion of personal attention and praise, and does a nice job maintaining his humility and modesty while he (well I think this) goes through his own level of transcendence. The book also reveals what happens when two cultures clash; the Amish and the English worlds, and learn, through the artistic brushstrokes of one man, that their peoples can share common reaction to tragedy, our inborn capacity for compassion.
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