Bøker av Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson was born and grew up in the Depression-era South. By age fifteen he was the sole support of his family, driving for a bootlegger in the swamps and farmland of North Florida near Sarasota. Outfoxing "revenuers" was a daily game in which no-one was ever hurt, and success meant bread on the table. Learning to anticipate what the adversary was likely to do held the author in good stead when war came. As young Lieutenant Richardson tells us in this matter-of-fact account of the first third of his life, he never lost a man under him from Normandy to VE-Day, partly because those days as a boy in the tangles of North Florida taught him well to gauge the enemy's next move. When the German Army attacked through the Ardennes on December 16, 1944, Eisenhower ordered General Patton to wheel his Third Army a hundred miles north in two days to relieve the beleaguered elements of Ninth Army at places like Bastogne. Lieutenant Richardson was designated to lead the 15,000-man strong 80th Division on this mighty trek, through the coldest winter and the deepest snow in the modern history of central Europe. Typically, the author tells us there was "no particular honor in being chosen to lead the Division; but it's true that I was known as a good map-reader"! Two of the author's three encounters with legendary General Patton were stories of marksmanship with 105 mm howitzers, the mainstay of American artillery in World War II. The third involved not artillery but headlights: Should the Third Army have them on or off in the dash toward Bastogne?! The young lieutenant lost that one. Ever the rebel, the author fought what he called "the dead hand of authority" from an early age. From the tyranny of Mrs. Rose, his 11th grade English teacher, to near court-martial at the end of the War, Jim Richardson paid the price for refusing to obey arbitrary orders. Certainly no other Army officer was given the Key to the City of Palm Beach, California, while technically AWOL from desert maneuvers! Jim Richardson died a third of the way through this memoir of his life. The story of his growing-up and his role in the War is here in full detail, though. It was a hell of a fight!

"There, just inside the front door, I saw what appeared to be a group of small white lights that looked very much like sparkling glitter."I looked back over toward the front door once again, I realized the lights were growing in number and had even begun to take on the shape of a man ... a very large man!"The shape I was seeing reached from the floor to just above the door frame and filled the entryway from side-to-side."The vision was to my right, and the whole time I was looking at it the entire right side of my body was charged with electricity, and the hair on my right arm stood straight up!"The amazing angelic encounter described above is just one of the many incredible but true stories Jim O. Richardson shares in this book, Acts of an Awesome God: Out of Darkness. From tragedy to triumph, this book takes you on one man's unforgettable journey where a continual series of spiritual discoveries and supernatural manifestations totally transformed his life. Within its pages you will also find: How to be free from hurts and wounds of the past How God really feels toward Catholics How to have power over the forces of darkness How to recover from failure and disappointment