When I See The Blood

The author’s spiritual odyssey starts as a young girl in the midst of a ravaging war, in Berlin. Stimulated by a teacher’s remarks about the Jews’ bloody religion of sacrifices, and her disparaging speech dismissing Jesus as stupid for giving up his life instead of living for his idea (as Hitler did), she begins her unpromising search, but finds God in an astonishing and miraculous way. The war years take their toll. The family is displaced and separated. Later, against all odds, they are reunited after months, and they set out on their arduous trek home to Berlin. The post-war years exact even more hardships: people die from exposure and starvation in great numbers, and hunger drives many to desperate acts of utter depravity. By then she has become a teenager with universal teenage ideas, emotions, and ambitions. God is teaching her to learn from her foolish mistakes. Immigrating to the United States, she is faced with more trials, but because of her relationship with Jesus Christ she is able to weather them in his strength, and with his joy and peace.

This is a fictionalized family drama concerning a Desert Storm veteran. Through a life rich in triumphs and tragedies, the family remains a strong unit. The protagonist graduates from the Naval Academy and joins the Marines. Deployed to the Persian Gulf, he returns changed through neurological damage, which sends his health spiraling down, disabling him to the extent that his kidneys stop functioning. Dialysis gives hope for healing, but since publication this veteran has been called home.