I have a Kindle and I LOVE my Kindle -- it allows me to indulge in what has always been my favourite way to spend time -- lost in a book !
We were going away and so I downloaded a couple of new books to ensure I would have something to read.
Kindle in hand, I opened one of them as soon as I settled in the car. My eyes moved over the first paragraph and I was immediately puzzled realizing it was word for word a book I had read a short time previously ! But the title was different and Kindle had not alerted me to the fact that it was a previously downloaded book !
I did a bit of digging and found out that yes, there were two books exactly word for word identical - by the same author EXCEPT for the last few pages.
The book was a fictionalized story based on real events and characters of the American Civil War. The first book ended with a tear jerking scene where the 'hero' dies in the arms of his bride - two days after their wedding.
Obviously, at some point the author must have repented of that scene and decided to republish the book, under a new name and changing the last several pages to a 'happily ever after' ending.
I had never heard of an author doing that -- since most often an author will acknowledge that the 'story' had a life of its own and the way it turns out cannot be changed any more than we can go back and rewrite our own life.
As I was considering what the author had done .... I was reminded that there was another Author who rewrote the ending to a story.
The Author I am referring to, of course, is God.
The way the story was first written, it ended with man lost in sin and death with no recourse or avenue of escape. But God could not bear His story of man having a tragic ending and He re-wrote the story, overruling man's actions and self-destiny by providing the re-write salvation plan that ends with man living joyfully in the Presence of God on a New Earth, forever -- the only real-life 'happily ever after' !!
3 comments:
I like that line..."the only real-life happily ever after"
Blessings Julie!
That is strange about the book re-written! Especially that it was not made obvious by the title or otherwise.
We can be so thankful, however, for the "rewrite" of our own story and destiny.
So glad to have 'our story' re-written by the Author!
The author of the civil war novel you were reading may be on to something. She may intened that readers choose their preferred ending...before purchasing the book. There's a thought.
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