Breakthrough by Joyce Smith with Ginger Kolbaba

John Smith, 14 years old, fell through an icy Missouri lake on a winter morning. . .For more than 60 minutes he laid lifeless. However, his mom, Joyce, was not ready to give up on him. She prayed and cried out to God to save him. . .and he did.  Miraculously his heart started beating again.

However, that was just the beginning of John's recovery in Breakthrough. He still had a healing process to go through. Thanks to social media, millions of people prayed for John's complete healing, along with his family. God did answer those prayer and in the end he astounded the medical community with his recovery.

Breakthrough is written from the point-of-view of John's mom. I can't imagine watching my son go through this. It truly is encouraging to read her words. Near the end, she had to convince the medical people that true healing had taken place and had to advocate for John. I could see real strength in her coming through. I would think Breakthrough would be especially encouraging to other people with loved ones facing medical challenges. It is also an interesting memoir book that invites people to have more faith in God in general. Breakthrough is also a major motion picture although I have not seen the movie to know how the book compares. However, there are pictures in the middle of the book both from the movie and from the real life family, which I thought were neat to see.

I received this book from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. #SponsoredbyFaithwords