Summary of Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell
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Get the Summary of Philip Yancey's Where the Light Fell in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their eight-foot-wide trailer. But when Yancey was in college, he uncovered a shocking secret about his father’s death—a secret that began to illuminate the motivations that drove his mother to extreme, often hostile religious convictions and a belief that her sons had been ordained for a divine cause.
Searching for answers, Yancey dives into his family origins, taking us on an evocative journey from the backwoods of the Bible Belt to the bustling streets of Philadelphia; from trailer parks to church sanctuaries; from family oddballs to fire-and-brimstone preachers and childhood awakenings through nature, music, and literature. In time, the weight of religious and family pressure sent both sons on opposite paths—one toward healing from the impact of what he calls a “toxic faith,” the other into a self-destructive spiral.
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The author’s father died nine days after this article was published.
#2
As he was growing up, the author would often hear his mother talking about how she needed to save her husband from himself, as he had become very religious and had tried to heal himself from the disease by prayer.
#3
When the disease hit, it took the lives of many children. It paralyzed many adults as well, and its victims were mostly children or adults.
#4
The author’s father was paralyzed from the neck down after contracting polio. He spent the next five years confined to an iron lung.
#5
In 1945, a teenage sailor named Marshall Yancey deserted his family and joined the navy, unsure of what lay ahead for him.
#6
After the war, the couple got married in September 1945. They were very happy for a short time, but then my mother had a baby girl. Her son developed severe allergies, and the family had to move.
#7
Polio claimed the lives of my parents’ first child and my father’s health, which had always been fragile. He entered the iron lung and was in a coma for weeks.
#8
On December 2, my father had his first glimpse of sunshine in nearly two months, and he took his first breaths of fresh air. He was free at last, but full of anxiety.
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But when my father moved to the chiropractic center, he was only able to see his sons once every two weeks. He had a rough life ahead of him,