Old Turtle and the broken truth

A partial truth, love your neighbor,

A story with beautiful illustrations, lovely cadence, and an enduring message. I would read it to everyone, if they would hold still long enough.

This is a great book for the non-Christian type. I really enjoyed hearing what the animal’s thought before the humans became involved and the description of the little girls’ journey, Mountains of Imagining, River of Wondering Why and the Forest of Finding Out. I also enjoyed the Old Turtle and

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when I found out it was a female, it melted my heart. Actually teared up when the broken truth meet up with its other half. “It was perfect.” The heart was broken and the other half of the heart was given to the young girl by the turtle and when it was reconnected it read on one side, “You are loved, and the other half said, “and so are they.” POWERFUL!!

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This story is visually stunning as well as morally beautiful. It offers a simple introduction into humanism. It tells a sad tale of war and the failures of human compassion, but does so with the idea that there can be resolve, and a solution. I would recommend it for all classrooms.

Such a Universalist message!

Old Turtle tells one little girl how to mend the suffering and war on the earth, how to mend the "broken truth".

Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a ""broken truth"" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.