Written by Ethel Barrett
Stories
Daniel, Master of Mystery
and Dreams
What a time to be born! The best of all worlds! And the best of all cities!
Jerusalem!
Daniel stood on the roof of his father’s house and looked over the city. First at the rooftops where the washings (that’s laundry) were blowing on the lines. And then down to the streets below—narrow and crooked and running in curves and corkscrews and lined with shops, with their goods spilling out into the streets. And teeming with people out to shop—haggling over their purchases, gossiping and jostling and being jostled.
Which Way to Nineveh ?
This book is a story of a nation that came apart at the seams—and got back together again. It’s a thundering story of kings and prophets and wars and spies and ambush and trickery—of bravery and cowardice—of shining honesty and outrageous mischief—and a few things more.
But it’s really a story about people. They lived at different times and in different places, but they all had one thing in common.
They came face to face with something God wanted them to do. And they had to choose whether or not to do it. Some of them chose to do it and some of them ran in the other direction. And so each one plotted his own story by the choice he made. Jonah was one of them and the name of that chapter is “Which Way to Nineveh?” Which is another way of saying, “Which way is God’s will for my life?”
It’s a good question. And you can plot the story of your life by the way you answer it.