Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

yet the strong shared it with the weak, the healthy with the injured.

‘It’s like Holy Communion. When Christ died he gave his body to us so that we could have spiritual life. My friend has given us his body so that we can have physical life.’

for what they missed now showed them what they had had.

In all the weeks that they had waited for this day, never for a moment had they lost their faith in Him; never had they doubted His love or His approval of their desperate and ugly struggle to survive.

Perhaps the greatest value of the grace of God had been to preserve their sanity.