Firefly from Africa
Book Details
Author(s)Emmanuel Bosn
PublisherEmmanuel A. Bosn
ISBN / ASINB00B2ZRETW
ISBN-13978B00B2ZRET6
Sales Rank497,721
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Firefly from Africa is a true story written by twelve-year-old Emmanuel Bosn. It’s a story of God’s grace, love, mercy, and compassion for one out of millions of children who found themselves homeless and abandoned following the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Adopted and suffering from PTSD, he was hailed as a survivor. After being freed like a firefly, God’s healing glory began shining through his life.
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Firefly from Africa is a true story written by our twelve-year-old son, Emmanuel, four years after we adopted him from Rwanda. It is a story of God’s grace, love, mercy, and compassion for one out of millions of children who found themselves homeless and abandoned from the conditions that followed the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Out of war’s tragic devastation, God’s ear of mercy was turned to the desperate cry of our wandering and lost child. This is Emmanuel’s story of his journey through life up to the present time, full of bumps and bruises, as well as many happy moments. He is only now able to verbalize some of the many events in his life that up to now were only in his mind because of his inability to speak the English language.
When I first found Emmanuel, he was an orphan suffering from malnutrition and sickness. He’d struggled to meet his own daily needs since he was approximately four years old, with no hope for a better future anywhere in sight. Most of Emmanuel’s family had perished during or following the genocide, leaving him orphaned and destined to face life alone. Although Emmanuel was hailed as a survivor, he hadn’t fulfilled a single developmental stage, emotionally or physically, because of constant fear, loneliness, and hunger.
As destiny would have it, I crossed paths with Emmanuel one spring day in 2006 and by God’s amazing grace, two years later, my husband and I were allowed to adopt Emmanuel and take him to a brand new life in America. Four years after his adoption, Emmanuel is finally able to tell his own story in his own words.
For a lengthy time Emmanuel was unable to focus longer than a few seconds and suffered from night terrors, emotional meltdowns, and poor eye contact. He frequently recoiled from human touch. He was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and struggled to fulfill even the first stage of life—trust. Fear ruled his life, so in order to survive he felt the need to control everything around him.
Although it took years for us to understand, Emmanuel was searching for God but couldn’t find Him. After running away most of his life, Emmanuel eventually reached out for the Father who had always planned to prosper him, never to harm him. It was through this heavenly relationship that Emmanuel was finally able to trust—enabling him to begin a new journey in life. When he began to speak English, he felt the need to express his feelings in a deeper way. Emmanuel was set free like a firefly, allowing God’s glory to begin shining through his life.
My husband, Ray, and I hope Emmanuel will grow to be a great man of God, a man who allows his light to shine before men, a light that radiates from his new heart and changed life.
In Christ Jesus,
Ray and Donna Bosn
Continue reading for more details of this book:
Firefly from Africa is a true story written by our twelve-year-old son, Emmanuel, four years after we adopted him from Rwanda. It is a story of God’s grace, love, mercy, and compassion for one out of millions of children who found themselves homeless and abandoned from the conditions that followed the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Out of war’s tragic devastation, God’s ear of mercy was turned to the desperate cry of our wandering and lost child. This is Emmanuel’s story of his journey through life up to the present time, full of bumps and bruises, as well as many happy moments. He is only now able to verbalize some of the many events in his life that up to now were only in his mind because of his inability to speak the English language.
When I first found Emmanuel, he was an orphan suffering from malnutrition and sickness. He’d struggled to meet his own daily needs since he was approximately four years old, with no hope for a better future anywhere in sight. Most of Emmanuel’s family had perished during or following the genocide, leaving him orphaned and destined to face life alone. Although Emmanuel was hailed as a survivor, he hadn’t fulfilled a single developmental stage, emotionally or physically, because of constant fear, loneliness, and hunger.
As destiny would have it, I crossed paths with Emmanuel one spring day in 2006 and by God’s amazing grace, two years later, my husband and I were allowed to adopt Emmanuel and take him to a brand new life in America. Four years after his adoption, Emmanuel is finally able to tell his own story in his own words.
For a lengthy time Emmanuel was unable to focus longer than a few seconds and suffered from night terrors, emotional meltdowns, and poor eye contact. He frequently recoiled from human touch. He was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and struggled to fulfill even the first stage of life—trust. Fear ruled his life, so in order to survive he felt the need to control everything around him.
Although it took years for us to understand, Emmanuel was searching for God but couldn’t find Him. After running away most of his life, Emmanuel eventually reached out for the Father who had always planned to prosper him, never to harm him. It was through this heavenly relationship that Emmanuel was finally able to trust—enabling him to begin a new journey in life. When he began to speak English, he felt the need to express his feelings in a deeper way. Emmanuel was set free like a firefly, allowing God’s glory to begin shining through his life.
My husband, Ray, and I hope Emmanuel will grow to be a great man of God, a man who allows his light to shine before men, a light that radiates from his new heart and changed life.
In Christ Jesus,
Ray and Donna Bosn
