{"product_id":"before-dawn-a-time-of-testing-humbling-suffering-and-sacrificing-9798893305494","title":"Before Dawn: A Time of Testing, Humbling, Suffering, and Sacrificing","description":"He cried so loud. He cried so sad.\u003cbr\u003eDuring his birth, his mother almost lost her life trying to save his. There were so many complications that some people said he would have been better off if he had been still born, rather than to have lived. He was an ugly baby. He cried a lot when strangers held him. They outwardly scorned him, and they secretly abused him.\u003cbr\u003eA big brown medicine ball worn over his bulging naval caused him to be cut off from his little friends much of the time. He grew up in a kind, loving, and faithful sharecropper family. But he saw suffering in his family early. When he was just six years old, his family was thrust out of their home and cast into the wilderness.\u003cbr\u003eThis happened because his parents tried to make progress. They tried to buy some land and break the sharecroppers curse from the family. The wilderness living experiences was tough. His mother's faithful prayers helped the family to cope; the barren land, the creeks, the woods, the wild animals, the things that crawled the earth. Meeting miss Dolly, a scary but sad woman, and seeing his brother dangling over fast moving water after falling off the foot log were terrifying experiences for him.\u003cbr\u003eCould he pull himself up by his bootstraps? Well, he started a self-assessment program in seventh grade. He left home at age sixteen hitch hiking, down a long, lonely, dangerous highway. He was searching for a schoolhouse. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Riley Cooley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arpress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798893305494\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arpress","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43752997847155,"sku":"9.79889E+12","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2eb1e75c-b627-4921-a7cf-b610bd611bbe.jpg?v=1756556027","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/before-dawn-a-time-of-testing-humbling-suffering-and-sacrificing-9798893305494","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}