Published in 2008, it received has excellent reviews. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome is the story of an aging train robber's quest for self-discovery. Peace Like a River, published in 2001, has been described as "high-spirited and unflagging" and has received some notable acclaim in literary circles.
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Enger, produced a series of mystery novels featuring a retired baseball player. In the early 1990s, he and his older brother, Lin, writing under the pen name L.L. He worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio from 1984 until the sale of Peace Like a River to publisher Grove/Atlantic allowed him to take time off to write. Since his teens, Leif Enger has wanted to write fiction. Sprinkled with playful nods to Biblical tales, beloved classics such as Huckleberry Finn, the adventure stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the westerns of Zane Grey, Peace Like A River is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world. Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and they cover territory far more extraordinary than even the Badlands where they search for Davy from their Airstream trailer. The morning of his sentencing, Davy-a hero to some, a cold-blooded murderer to others-escapes from his cell, and the Lands set out in search of him. The quiet 1960's midwestern life of the Lands is upended when Reuben's brother Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the laws of nature.
“And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having been prepared as a bride having been adorned for her husband.” "And the angel showed me a pure river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb, coursing down the center of the main street.Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. John the Apostle, in the book of Revelation saw a vision of the church being adorned and ready for the coming of Christ. The church is like a well ordered city, surrounded with mighty walls of truth and justice, protected by the almighty, fairly built and adorned by God's infinite wisdom: its inhabitants the saints enjoy high privileges like, peace, joy, and hope. The church of Jesus Christ is the new Jerusalem, cleansed and purified by the blood of the lamb, waiting like a bride to receive our King. There is a spring that flows from the cross of Calvary that cleanses us from the impurity and brings peace and healing to our broken spirits. Not that the people of God will be exempt from trouble, rather God will be with them in the midst of the troubles.
His river of grace and peace flows through the middle of the city. Whatever problems rage against us, God’s Spirit is the ever-flowing river who sustains us and gives us gladness even while we are under siege (Ps. This psalm inspired him to write the well known hymn, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." God is a stronghold and a tower, a bulwark (strong wall or fortress) never failing! Luther faced numerous dangers and threats on his life from the pope and the religious establishment when he found peace and comfort in this Psalm. Psalm 46 is said to be the favorite Psalm of Martin Luther, the great reformer of the 15th century. "Though the waters roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake, there is a river" ( Psalm 46:3).
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