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Sometimes life breaks us. Sometimes we find ourselves lost in all the hurt and confusion we have to live with every day. Sometimes it feels as though we cannot possibly endure another moment. And sometimes we find ourselves so low that we literally weep through the night. King David was familiar with and spoke often of this pain. However, he also knew of a greater hope-a hope that has the ability to lift our spirits as we wait for the coming joy in the morning.Joy in the Night shares ten of Don Rodney West's most popular sermons, which he has presented around the world. From Jamaica to Mexico to New York, Pastor West provides the background information as to the location of his sermon and the reason for choosing each topic before diving into the sermon. Written with humor and compassion yet not lacking in seriousness and truth, Pastor West delves into ten different concepts, all of which reflect not only the joy we may experience in the morning but also the joy we can find in the night in the midst of our trials.

Stories fit the time in which they were written. These stories were collected from over a hundred years ago. Life was very different then from what it is now. For instance, there were no automobiles then. If you wanted to go anywhere, you walked or rode on horseback or traveled in a buggy or a wagon. There were some other ways to travel, of course. There were railway trains, with short wooden cars that had wooden seats. There were also boats as well as steamboats for travel by water.Although these stories are from a hundred or more years ago, they still have the same principles that apply to a child of today's world. With every story there is a moral lesson. You might even read a story that your mother or father may have read when they were kids! Some of these stories may also appear in well known books as "Sabbath Readings for the Home."

Steven, aboard a sailing ship en route from Malaya to Hong Kong with his family, awakens to find himself injured and being nursed by a native woman he does not know. Where is his family? The other shipmates? How did he get to be here with this stranger? Suddenly it all came flooding back in a renewed burst of awareness...Pirates! Steven desperately needed to know what had happened to his father, mother and sister. Were they safe with natives like himself? When would he be able to see them again? As this woman tended to his wounds, he became drowsy and sank back into a deep sleep, still wondering when he would see his people again.