He Knew My Name
Book Details
Author(s)Dahlia Barakat
PublisherGood Book Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00HCR8OBQ
ISBN-13978B00HCR8OB8
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
A broken little girl in an Arab world …
And a decision that would change her life forever.
Dahlia Barakat was just 6 years old, a pampered, upper-class Muslim girl living in Beirut, when her mother handed her over to the custody of her father. Feelings of rejection festered as Dahlia’s natural spunk veered toward rebelliousness, a constant source of trouble at the Christian boarding school to which her father had sent her.
Then, one day, something happened. Tired of her pain, Dahlia heard God calling her name and decided to pray to Jesus as she had seen and heard her Christian teachers and classmates do so many times before. To her great joy, Jesus answered her.
He Knew My Name is the story of how Dahlia responded to that answer. It is the story of her response, not only to be baptized, but to be baptized publicly in an Islamic world. It is the story of the delight her response brought her Christian teachers, the challenge it created for her Muslim family and the peaceful strength it gave to her own spirit.
Strength to marry an American husband and leave the Middle East to relocate in the United States, a strange new world, only to end up alone to raise her five children. Strength, in the midst of culture shock and poverty, to instill into her children a deep love for God such that they continue today to carry the message of God’s love around the world.
If you have ever felt wounded, rejected or without hope, read He Knew My Name. This saga is a healing tonic of redemption and renewed hope. Dahlia’s story is a beautiful reminder that, regardless of this world’s pains, we each have a heavenly father who loves us and knows our name.
And a decision that would change her life forever.
Dahlia Barakat was just 6 years old, a pampered, upper-class Muslim girl living in Beirut, when her mother handed her over to the custody of her father. Feelings of rejection festered as Dahlia’s natural spunk veered toward rebelliousness, a constant source of trouble at the Christian boarding school to which her father had sent her.
Then, one day, something happened. Tired of her pain, Dahlia heard God calling her name and decided to pray to Jesus as she had seen and heard her Christian teachers and classmates do so many times before. To her great joy, Jesus answered her.
He Knew My Name is the story of how Dahlia responded to that answer. It is the story of her response, not only to be baptized, but to be baptized publicly in an Islamic world. It is the story of the delight her response brought her Christian teachers, the challenge it created for her Muslim family and the peaceful strength it gave to her own spirit.
Strength to marry an American husband and leave the Middle East to relocate in the United States, a strange new world, only to end up alone to raise her five children. Strength, in the midst of culture shock and poverty, to instill into her children a deep love for God such that they continue today to carry the message of God’s love around the world.
If you have ever felt wounded, rejected or without hope, read He Knew My Name. This saga is a healing tonic of redemption and renewed hope. Dahlia’s story is a beautiful reminder that, regardless of this world’s pains, we each have a heavenly father who loves us and knows our name.
