Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys, but now for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story.
One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan’s second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca’s story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked and she had to escape. WHAT THEY MEANT FOR EVIL is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child, Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire, suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses, dodging life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles, and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps, and grappling with a war that stole her childhood.
Her story is a lyrical, captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime, and how through divine intervention, she came to America and found a new life full of joy, hope, and redemption.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: What They Meant for Evil
Book Author: Rebecca Deng with Ginger Kolbaba
What do you like about this book:
"When you speak the truth or the language that the heart understands, the outside differences don't stand a chance."
What a remarkable story of heartache and survival as Rebecca Deng walks her readers through the traumatic events of her childhood. Eye witnessing innumerable atrocities as an orphaned victim of South Sudan's civil war, she lived many years in a desolate Kenyan refugee camp. Selected to travel to the United States through a United Nations' Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan scholarship program, Rebecca was afforded the opportunity to further her education and gain a deeper understanding of God's call upon her life.
Whenever heartache and loneliness threatened to overcome her spirit, Rebecca once whispered into the night air, "The Creator of heaven and earth is with me, He sees me and he will be wherever I go, so, no, I won't be all alone. I will be fine."
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