{"id":6158,"date":"2012-10-23T05:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2012-11-07T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T21:24:41","slug":"book-review-running-for-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Running for My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Running for my Life<\/em><\/a>, the story of Lopez Lomong, is a powerful story of God’s providence and protection that catapulted a young man from the pit of despair into international prominence as a track star on the Olympic level.\u00a0 Lopez was kidnapped from his African village in Sudan as a young boy.\u00a0 He was taken to a prison camp and left in conditions that can’t even begin to be described they were so deplorable.\u00a0 After a few weeks, a couple of older boys helped Lopez escape to a refugee camp in Kenya.\u00a0 Even though he wasn’t reunited with his family\u2026and he missed them terribly\u2026he remembered that his mother had taught him of God’s love and he knew that God would take care of him.\u00a0 Lopez passed the time at the refugee camp by running and playing soccer.\u00a0 He learned a lot about survival during that time, but even more about taking care of others.<\/p>\n

Lopez was given an opportunity to come to the United States as a teenager.\u00a0 The trick was that he had to write an essay about himself and why he wanted to go to America\u2026and he had to write it in English.\u00a0 He knew very little English, but he did what it took to figure out the words and put the essay together.\u00a0 Like he said, “God gave him the words.”\u00a0 Lopez gave the most hilarious account of his airplane flight to the United States.\u00a0 You will laugh out loud at the things that we take for granted in our comfortable plane traveling lifestyles!<\/p>\n

The family that adopted Lopez, the Rodgers in New York, opened a whole new world of opportunity for him by putting him in school and getting him on the cross country team.\u00a0 Lopez talked a lot about his high school and college career and the ultimate realization that it was time for him to turn pro.\u00a0 God granted Lopez a huge gift during his college years by reuniting him with his family back in South Sudan.\u00a0 By that time, Lopez had the opportunity to make a difference in the life of his family by using his running talent to provide for them.\u00a0 He turned pro and then became a US citizen shortly thereafter.\u00a0 One of the high points of the book was reading about his thoughts while he was carrying in the US Flag at the Beijing Olympics.\u00a0 The absolute best part of the book was that Lopez realized that God had a purpose and a plan for all the heartache he had endured.\u00a0 God had allowed that to happen in order for him to fully appreciate the incredible opportunities that would come along for him later in his life.<\/p>\n

I absolutely love sports and have a heart for the people of Africa that suffer from years of civil war, oppression, and unrest.\u00a0 This book would be an inspiration to anyone that is struggling with God’s purpose for their life.<\/p>\n

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze\u00ae.com <http:\/\/BookSneeze\u00ae.com<\/a>> book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http:\/\/www.access.gpo.gov\/nara\/cfr\/waisidx_03\/16cfr255_03.html<\/a>> : \u201cGuides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Running for my Life, the story of Lopez Lomong, is a powerful story of God’s providence and protection that catapulted a young man from the pit of despair into international prominence as a track star on the Olympic level.\u00a0 Lopez was kidnapped from his African village in Sudan as a young boy.\u00a0 He was taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,23,28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-book-review","category-generosity","category-integrity","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}