Joshua In The Holy Land
...t is time to set aside old hatreds and create a community of mutual love and understanding. At one of the gatherings of the newly formed "Children of Peace," a song is performed which says it all: "In God's Family There Are No Strangers." Is it possible that Jews, Arabs, and Christians will ever create true peace in the Middle East? Girzone thinks so. He concludes his hopeful tale with the following thought: "A dream is often nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism. Dreams have in the past come true where goodwill and determination overcame the obstacles and cleared the way for a new reality." As this unsurprising installment in Girzone's bestselling Joshua series (following Joshua and the Children ) opens, the simple carpenter Joshua is wandering in the desert in the Middle East. Finding a lost lamb, he returns it to its owner, the prominent sheik Ibrahim Saud, then cures a little girl in the sheik's encampment of a deadly snakebite, thus gaining the Arab's eternal gratitude. Their ensuing friendship opens the possibility of success for Joshua's true mission, bringing peace to the Middle East. He unites like-minded Jews, Arabs and Christians as the Children of Peace, hoping to end strife by forming personal bonds between peoples. Under the guidance of the gentle, mysterious holy one, the movement increases and multiplies until it t...