Filip Besim Zecevic

Besim had grown up in a comfortable home in peaceful Derventa, Bosnia. He attended the Mosque and shared his mother's cream cakes and strawberry preserves with friends. Then suddenly the soldiers appeared, bringing years of battles, bullets, and blood.Again and again Besim survived unscathed when he should've been killed. Once he felt himself frozen in midstride as a shrapnel bomb burst just in front of him. Once the parking lot he hid in exploded moments after he left, showering him with breaking glass. During a devastating grenade barrage, Besim found himself praying: "God, if there is a God, save me. Stop this horror."Eventually Besim reluctantly accepted an invitation to church, where he encountered the kindest people he had ever met. Did their Jesus hold the answer to his questions? Who was the alluring young woman who passed him in the aisle? But now we had a new enemy: his own father. "I should've killed you when I had the chance," he growled.Besim's enthralling story will strengthen your faith in the God who covers us even before we seek Him.… (altro)