The Impossible: the miraculous story of a mother's faith and her child's resurrection by Joyce Smith with Ginger Kolbaba

 

The Impossible: the miraculous story of a mother's faith and her child's resurrection  by Joyce Smith with Ginger Kolbaba  250 pages

When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son, John, fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on her son. She mustered all her faith and strength into one force and cried out to God in a loud voice to save him. Miraculously, her son's heart immediately started beating again. In the coming days, John would defy every expert, every case history, and every scientific prediction. Sixteen days after falling through the ice and being clinically dead for an hour, he walked out of the hospital under his own power, completely healed.

I have heard the story and watched the movie, but I wanted to read it for myself.  What a great story. I loved the way the author is transparent and reveals her true feelings in this book.  I truly felt like I was the young boy's mother and could relate to a son being in a hospital.  So glad this book has a happy ending.