Innerchange Magazine
Christopher Foster has written an incredible story so full of adventure and emotion that you cannot finish it without a gasp of joy…an excellent book for a broad spectrum of readers from mature pre-adolescents through adulthood.
Angeles Arrien, PhD., author, The Four-Fold Way
Having a raven as an ally is powerful medicine indeed. Christopher Foster has paid a wonderful tribute to our feathered friends.
NAPRA ReView
Buoyant as the air through which the birds soar, the story lifts the heart and carries it, dancing lightly, all the way through to the end. Heartwarming and delightful, this is a book you will read and then instantly think of ten friends to whom it must be lent.
Robert Gerzon, author, Finding Serenity in The Age of Anxiety
A wonderful fable, very well written and filled with love and wisdom.
The Boox Review
A sweet fable about living in the joy of the present, featuring a young raven named Joshua who learns to look to his heart, to the stillness within, for answers to every despair.
Seeds of a New Humanity
The story is a process, a gift and a sweet journey. May it touch the hearts of millions.
InnerSelf Magazine
This is one of those books that can serve both as a children’s book and an adult book (in the same vein as The Little Prince and Jonathan Livingston Seagull). I enjoyed it and recommend it.
Mt. Shasta Magazine
A delightful novel…Foster has fashioned a tale that recognizes the intelligence in all species and how all life can transcend what is seen as disaster.
NewPages.com
While bookstores are full of stories about personal life journeys, this tale told in fable form seems uniquely appealing, as it adds an additional level of entertainment for the reader.
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Christopher Foster,
The Raven Who Spoke With God
 Book
Description
This is the inspiring, highly-acclaimed story of a young raven who believes there is more to life than eating and playing, but faces obstacles at every turn as he seeks to understand and fulfill his true purpose. As we follow Joshua's adventures in this charming fable, we realize that the answer to our difficulties is never far away, but is found in the quietness of our own
heart. Christopher Foster paints a vivid portrait of a hero's journey as step by step a sensitive, vulnerable, but determined raven overcomes his fear and grief and becomes a friend and ally to humankind. "It reminded me of a Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the Rockies," said Bob Spear, of Heartland Reviews, in recommending the title to BookSense.
Reading Guide Available
A reading guide to "The Raven" is available and will be emailed to you quicker than a bird in flight upon request (please visit website below to send request). The book makes a splendid vehicle through which to explore such areas as peace, meeting grief and despair, nature, and spirituality with others. Some sample topics:
1. The underlying premise of the book is that all life is one and we share a close kinship with nature and the animals. Is this idea foolish or unrealistic? If you think it is true, why? Do you have any personal experience to support the notion?
2. When Joshua is alone facing darkness and despair he suddenly becomes aware of a voice within himself that gives him hope and a sense of peace. Have you ever had an experience of this nature? Would you like to have it?
Author's
Bio
Born 1932 in London, England, Christopher Foster is a former weekly newspaper editor. He has worked as a reporter in the UK, Africa, New Zealand and Canada, and lived for several years in a spiritual community in British Columbia, Canada, before moving to Colorado. He has written three novels,two books of poetry, and a biography. You may send him an email at chris@singingspirit books.com and visit his website at www.singingspiritbooks.com.
Opening Lines
The nest had been built years before in a tall fir, and like the tree that was its support and friend, it had withstood the worst that wind and storm could throw at it.
Sticks were the base of the nest. They formed a cradle, a basket, that measured more than three feet across and was lined with bark, fur, and dead grass. The nest-built with as much care and love, dare one suppose, as any human habitation?-contained a truly special touch. Woven into the lining were strips of an old woolen jacket discovered-oh, happy day!-in a nearby garbage dump.
At the time our story begins, four gorgeous greenish-blue eggs reposed upon this soft lining. They waited for the moment when life would wave its magic baton and a crew of gawky, half-naked young ravens would venture out of their cocoon into the exciting, dangerous world beyond.
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