Gifted Hands
...ows that she was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.Their father didn’t easily grasp complex problems because he tended to get bogged down in details, unable to see the overall picture. That was probably the biggest difference between their parents. Both parents came from big families. When Ben’ mother was going on “vacation” she was actually checking herself into a mental institution she did this because the separation and divorce plunged her into a terrible period of confusion and depression.Ben, Curtis, and their mother lived in a Boston tenement.As soon as Ben’s mother got home from work she would ask them what they’d learned in school.Ben turned his life over to Christ when the message and music of the church touched him emotiona...