Book Review

Title: Hidden Sorrow, Lasting Joy
Author: Anneke Companjen
This book talks about the women who were being persecuted because of their strong faith in Jesus Christ in countries like China, Africa, Vietnam and Egypt. These women are usually the wives of persecuted pastors who underwent a lot of mental torture, exclusions from family members and friends as well as the burden to care for the whole family independently while their husbands were in jail because of their faith. The stories from this book came from different women with different background and faced different kind of persecutions. The author's purpose of compiling these stories was to bring our attention to these forgotten women who had suffered tremendously. Often I heard people said to pray for the persecuted pastors but usually forgot to pray for the pastors' family.
After reading this book(read the book in 2004 =D), I felt that I'm very blessed to be able to read my bible, worship God and pray without any restrictions and persecutions. Yet I'm too lazy to pray and read the bible. (Shame on me!!!:P) I hope that I will change this bad attitude and continue to pray for those people who are being persecuted. Those who are reading my blog, I really recommend that you read this book. It's really eye opening and interesting.