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Title: After Sorrow Comes Joy by Cherie Clark, Paul J. Miller ISBN: 0-615-11562-4 Publisher: Lawrence & Thomas Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book.
Comment: As a mom of biological children as well as a Vietnamese daughter, Kelly, I quickly "connected" with Tom and Cherie Clark in the first portion of Cherie's book, After Sorrow Comes Joy. Reading some of her statements, was like a flashback to my thoughts and feelings during Kelly's adoption. One of the comments was when Cherie said, "pregnancy did nothing to prepare me for this intense longing I would have for a child I had never met." It's one of those things you can't adequately explain to people who haven't been there.
Cherie's vivid descriptions of life in Vietnam help me to understand more about the birthcountry of my daughter, and the devastation that was caused by a war I was too young to care about at the time. The Clark's desire and willingness to live in a war-torn country and care for so many needy children, should ignite in all of us a greater desire to deny ourselves and serve this world. They made a significant difference in so many lives. A difference that continues into the present and future of many lives.
Cherie commented that during one of her trips back to Vietnam, the "smell of Vietnam" overwhelmed her with memories of her time there. I remember the first time I walked into the Denver Vietnamese market after adopting Kelly. I burst into tears, because the smell was the smell of me finally going to Saigon and seeing my baby. Nothing ever smelled so wonderful! Another thing you can't adequately describe to others.
As my husband and I pursue the adoption of a Vietnamese boy with the help of Cherie's organization, International Mission of Hope, I feel indebted to her for her active expression of love for my baby's country, for her love of orphans and others in need, and for her desire to give up so many American comforts to experience the the vast joy that comes only from denying yourself and serving others wholeheartedly.
Rating: 5
Summary: An incredible story of hope in the midst of war
Comment: After Sorrow Comes Joy is the incredible story of a woman who discovered her inner strength in war-torn Vietnam and directed that strength towards a resolute purpose: helping the smallest victims of the war. Facing hurdles and obstacles that would cause most people to quit and return home, Cherie Clark refused to give up hope for the children that had been entrusted to her care. I found the account of events leading up to the fall of Saigon impossible to put down once I started reading.
Cherie describes her experience in such a way that I feel as though I lived through it all with her. My emotions ran the gamut from despair to hope, anger to determination, exhaustion to joy. And in all cases there was an overwhelming awe that Cherie was able to stay so focused on her one purpose of saving children - and through that find peace.
I found myself sitting quietly as I finished reading and reflecting on the glimmers of hope from people like Cherie Clark that shine through the tragic consequences of war.
This book was a total sensory experience and I'm anxiously awaiting the next two books in the trilogy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly a Life With Meaning
Comment: Cherie gave 100% of herself to the children of VietNam and, later, India. I couldn't put this book down. I also have adopted internationally and want so much to drop everything and go to work with children without families overseas. The difference: I don't have the courage, Cherie did. I only wish she had the time or resources to write the sequel she had planned to this wonderful book.
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Title: The War Cradle by Shirley Peck-Barnes, Shirley P. Barnes ISBN: 0970688407 Publisher: Vintage Pressworks Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: This Must Be My Brother by Leann Thieman, Carol Dey ISBN: 1564763838 Publisher: Cook Communications Ministries intl Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: My Gifts from India by Frances Abbott ISBN: 1410796949 Publisher: Authorhouse Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.50 |
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Title: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood by Kien Nguyen ISBN: 0316284610 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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