First Breath

Author's Note: That first breath of your newborn child, remember that day? The joy when you hear that your child has taken that first breath. Well this story has a little twist in it: instead of that healthy child you have a child that's not breathing, until one miracle came and saved every body's lives.

Remember that first breath of your child, either it went perfectly or there was tragedy when the doctor walks in the room with the news you really don’t want to hear. Well this book is that book. Peace Like A River, Leif Enger will keep you waiting at the edge of your seat with his  dramatic, breathtaking, emotional stories.

Imagine being in the delivery room and having your kid with some of these problems asthma, croup, pneumonia and just regular lung problems. But Reuben was a special baby. Normally there is that slight possibility that those miracle won’t happen. Like I said Reuben had that family that really cared about him. That’s when his family started to pray and wish for that one big miracle.

As you read and try to figure out that Reuben doesn’t believe in miracles, but I think that nobody should say that. I mean look at all the women in the delivery room that pray that their baby is healthy and that the newborn is breathing. Look how it turns out they wish for those miracles and they come out of that delivery room with a healthy newborn. See miracles really do happen.

Struggling, failure, misfortune there are so many words to describe this family and how hard they had it. Leif Enger in his book Peace Like a River really makes that point that miracles really do happen, no matter how big that problem is even like saving a child's life.