Walking Taylor Home

Book: Walking Taylor Home by Brian Schrauger
Pages: 270
Finished: August 2008
Challenges:
**Summer Reading Challenge
** In Their Shoes Challenge

First sentence: Almost always, especially early on, I told each of my three sons, "I can tell. Someday you are going to be an awesome dad."

Last sentence: See you in the morning! Good night! I love you too!

This was such a beautiful book. A beautiful testament of a father's fierce love for his son whose body is ravaged with cancer. This father truly walks his son through the valley of the shadow of death and ultimately walks his son Home, to a perfect healing. This father's account is raw, but real. He was not afraid to tell it like it was--especially accounting his own struggle and wrestling with God, his loving and all knowing Heavenly Father.
This following product description is as good a description as I could ever write:

From Amazon:
No one ever said that the honest truth was easy. In this raw account of the intense love between a father and his son, no emotion goes untouched as Brian watches his son, Taylor, war against the cancer that rages in his little body. The courage will inspire you. The joy will surprise you. The hope will encourage you. And the faith will challenge you. This true story is not about a boy who gets sick and dies. It's about a boy who gets sick and "lives."

From Steven Curtis Chapman:
"If you dare to journey into this story, be prepared to have your heart broken while at the same time being filled to overflowing with the profound hope of the Gospel."

Read it! It will encourage you, even as you walk with this family through such terrible adversity. The hope shines through on every page.

Here is a link to a video, Taylor's dad put on the web, celebrating the life of Taylor. The music is a song written by Michael W. Smith and was released on his Freedom album. It is called Prayer For Taylor.