Two under the Indian sun

by Jon Godden

Other authorsRumer Godden (Joint Author.)
1966

Publication

New York, Knopf, 1966.

Tags

India, Biography

Status

Available

Description

"Responding to God through worshipful discipleship. "What is the best way and the best place to learn what it truly means to walk with God as a disciple? While worshiping God in his throne room.Building on his compelling exploration of God's character in the book, "I Exalt You, O God, " Jerry Bridges now equips you to respond in fresh, authentic ways to the God we come to know better through our personal worship."I Will Follow You, O God" focuses prayerfully on the four most fundamental aspects of discipleship: - living all of life under God's authority- finding delight in genuine obedience- continually experiencing God's conscious presence - truly depending on him for everything "I Will Follow You, O God" also includes a generous scattering of helpful prayers that will guide your heart in reverent praise and thanksgiving. As a result, you'll find your heart overflowing, your life recharged, and your spirit yearning to obey the God who loves you. "From the Hardcover edition."… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member owenre
This book was in my childhood library and it has remained dear to me. There are some hard truths about childhood in it, a glimpse of life in the Raj times in India and besides it is a good story.
I am fond of the Goddens as authors, although I realize they are dated and mannered, they are as
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 comforting as an old robe.
But why I wonder does this cover show it as authored by Jon Godden instead of Jon and Rumer Godden?
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LibraryThing member Fliss88
After being sent to England for a year, to live with well meaning but unworldly Aunts, the sisters Jon and Rummer were now returning to their family and home in Narayangunj, India. It's 1914 and they have come home to escape from the dangers of war. Aged 7 and 6 they spend the next five years in
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 India, where their mother is constantly vigilant of the water they drink, the mosquitoes that invade at night and all the unseen dangers of everyday life. The girls love their Indian lifestyle, and the freedom of their childhood speaks of a time that has gone forever. Their father employed as a steamboat agent was allocated a company house and here the family lived with a small number of house servants. To escape the heat of summer the household would move to the hills of Darjeeling or Musoorie for months, and reading about their travels to these hilltop villages was just lovely. It would be magic to spend the summer in a houseboat on the lake in old Kashmir. As sisters, Jon and Rummer were very close, they shared everything, had no secrets! Those five years obviously had a big influence on them both and was inspirational in their later careers as writers. The book ended too abruptly for my liking but then this idyllic time was also about to end as the sisters were changing, as we all do, with age.
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LibraryThing member RajivC
The book is a charming memoir. I hesitate to call it an autobiography. Jon and Rumer Godden wrote this memoir jointly of their childhood in India. They lived in India during the First World War, and their memory seems excellent.
There is an innocence in the writing, which is amazing, considering
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 they wrote the book many years later. The two sisters create a wonderful atmosphere, and there are moments when you can almost smell the old mud of India and visualize the people surrounding them.
It is possible to visualize two young girls living in what is now Bangladesh and enjoying the Indian sun. They were not rich and wrote about their pecuniary constraints without affectation. The sisters compared life in India with life in England. When they sailed back to England, they could not (at first) accept England as home.
Most of us forget that, for many English people, India was home but not home.
A charming book, well worth reading if you want to get a glimpse of life in the Raj, through the eyes of young children.
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Language

English

Original publication date

1966

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