More than 50 participants donned their finest pink in honor of Triumph Ministries Walk for a Cause for Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Oct. 28.
Triumph Ministries Senior Pastor Stephanie Mathis and Co-Pastor Ray Mathis, Minister Fayshawn White, …
A life is nothing but the sum of its yesterdays. – Raymond Mathis
In this novel David Joy creates hard circumstances and harder characters. These are mostly people without university or college degrees, some even with limited grade school – but very schooled in the rough and dirty ways of the world we all inhabit some part of.
The author writes with the softest, most humane touch. When he describes Raymond Mathis’ deceased wife Doris, only the most hardened reader won’t experience mist in the eyes – sad but oh so beautiful. Joy pays attention to every sweet detail.
The nicest thing about David Joy is how down-low his whole approach to the story is. Set in North Carolina it could just as easily be West Kootenay. There are no ugly international cartels, just nasty local dealers. There are no super cops, just people doing their jobs. As misguided as some may think Ray Mathis is when he takes the law into his own hands, he acts from a moral code that was common t