Title: Honest Truth! Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds
Author: Reverend Harold A. Vieux
Publisher: Toplink Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 978-1948962384
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 268
Reviewed by: Ella Vincent
Pacific Book Review
Dr. Harold Vieux has written an inspiring memoir about how faith helped him become a minister. Honest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds is a book that readers will love. Vieux writes about his humble beginnings as a boy growing up in Haiti In a Catholic family. He then immigrates to the United States and joins the Marines. While he’s serving in the Marines, he goes to a church and commits to Christianity. After he becomes a minister, he becomes a missionary and travels the world. However, when the devastating earthquake of 2010 strikes his native country, Vieux flies home to Haiti to help people and to stay encouraged through their personal tragedies and his own as well.
Honest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds tells the unvarnished truth about Vieux’s spiritual journey. Vieux writes deftly about the ways that his faith was tested by the challenging events in his life and by the influence of the Vodou religion on his native Haiti while he was growing in his Christian faith. Vieux’s writing is so emotional and heartfelt; readers will instantly feel a connection to him. Vieux writes about how trying times made his religious faith deepen. This memoir details his personal life and also cautions against the fight against the evil forces that tempt him. Vieux also advises readers on how to combat evil and personal demons in their lives.
The book presents an honest and refreshingly different look at Haiti. Honest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds presents the country in a three-dimensional image of he country’s resilience through tragedy. The memoir shows the strength of the Haitian people after the earthquake. Honest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds would be best for readers of books about spiritual enlightenment. The autobiography would also be best for readers who are fans of memoirs about Caribbean immigrants, like the memoirs of Edwidge Danticat. Additionally, the book’s religious optimism would be best for readers of ministers like Joel Osteen or TD Jakes.
Honest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds would also be best for church book groups or for missionaries who want to have religious reading material. Even if readers aren’t religious, they can gain insight into how to overcome obstacles through determination and optimism. Readers who want to learn about how to live between the precarious line of good and evil would benefit from this book. Dr. Vieux’s memoir is a compelling and engagingHonest Truth!Caught Between Two Spiritual Worlds is a book that will encourage readers to live their best lives and live in their truth.
