Jim Kenney Livres

"She's Just Walking Down the Street" is a memoir of a Marine Corps veteran. At the age of 19 Jim Kenney received a draft notice from President Lyndon Baines Johnson for induction into the Armed Forces of the United States. His friend, who was also turning 19, would venture into boot camp together. Then they became one of the last troop transports by ship to Vietnam.The incidents chronicled in this account are the experiences of a young person beckoned into an escalating warfront, perhaps yawning at times, intense and unforgettable at others. It is not an account of heroism or machine gun glory. It contains a firsthand glimpse of the simple realities of war.

"from JESUS, with LOVE" written by Jim Kenney, shows us a Jesus who understands and cares. Based on a careful reading of the gospels this book is an imaginary series of letters from Jesus to you, the reader. But is it imaginary? To Jim, as he explains in the introduction, these letters came to him as a message to the heart. What is different about these devotions on the earthly life of Jesus is that they are written in the fi rst person, much as Paul's letters to the early churches were. So the first letter begins, "My Mum was already pregnant with me when Dad married her." We experience the trauma of a young child tormented by his peers and beginning to doubt his legitimacy but then discovering the marvel of his true parenthood. We hear of the long wait in obscurity and the power of temptation. Each letter is a devotion in itself, but taken together they reveal to us a Jesus who, for all that he is God in the flesh, yet is one who struggled through our common trials, -someone who truly understands. As each letter ends Jesus speaks directly to our heart in an affirmation of His care for each of us. Geof Galbraith, Combined Churches Committee, Beechworth