The Candle Maker [Paperback]

The Candle Makeroffers a refreshing glimpse into the journey of faith throughout the entirety of a lifetime. The story of Phillip and his quest to understand how and why there is a candle within his chest is compelling and reads like a parable guiding toward a profound truth. Phillips remarkable experience, the wide swing of all human emotion, travels the high, joyous peaks as well as the low, desolate valleys of life.

The Candle Makerfollows Phillip through all the stages of his existence, from the warmth of a nurturing home, to the embrace of a true love, through the snares of those who would tempt to extinguish his inner flame, through great loss and absolute heartache, back again to a life rebuilt and life returned, and ultimately face to face with the Candle Maker, the creator of all light. Dont let the brevity of The Candle Maker mislead you, within this small volume is a story that sings a grand truth that must be experienced by anyone walking the path of light.

James Ryan Orr, a Husband, father, teacher, songwriter, and author, had his spark for writing ignited in a creative writing class in college. He has traveled across the state of North Carolina sharing his testimony, insight, and music with others at drug and alcohol treatment facilities, churches, community events, and also through radio interviews.

Deflated, Phillip sat on a wooden bench looking out of spaced, unfocused eyes at the common area where people from the Town came to walk, picnic, and, in warmer weather, swim in the pond near the path. In his mind he conjured up images of his father, staggering along snow-swept streets, falling, freezing off into death, a failure. For a moment he hated his mother for not telling him before now, for holding back; he hated her for letting him know, hated the people of the Town for failing to hear and help, and hated his father most of all, whom he had never met, for his weakness. Blind in his thoughts, boiling into imagery olS)