Strong Wings, Gentle Wind

Some of the greatest of champions emerge out of life’s difficulties and are molded through adversity and the crucibles of experience. This is the case of Raffoul Najem. Read through the pages of his book, a plethora of emotions capture your thoughts and heart, as if entering into a made for movie novel filled with much intrigue, suspense, suffering, pain, breakthroughs, and miracles. Yet, it’s not some fictitious novel, but a real life story of one whose own real life experience is depicted with heartfelt and deep reflection. Raffoul’s story should provoke us all to a deeper life of faith beyond the superficial and complacent. We can become inoculated, even hardened of heart, and sit back on the beach of comfort and apathy while many are still shipwrecked in a sea of despair.