Melissa R Meyers

Beneath the Ancient Dust Melissa R Meyers

"Beneath the Ancient Dust: Inspirational Stories from Nine Years in Afghanistan" is a series of stories intertwined with personal reflections. The author highlights spiritual truth through her everyday encounters in an ancient culture while an international crisis is at its doorstep. It is a book for those who enjoy a good read-and desire to find God, be challenged, and encounter Christianity in a historic land. Some of the highlighted stories are about the following: a treacherous road journey, a Buddhist monastery, drug smugglers, taxi-driving shepherds, encounters with warlords and suicide bombers, a foreign cemetery, Afghan weddings, the struggles of modern Afghan women, and being a chicken-keeper.