MOCHA MORNINGS

k aren James.  Listening to her story this past summer at  Women Of Faith , in Dallas, Tx, brought me to tears.  I was so moved by her story and her unfailing faith, i felt compelled to buy her book, Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy.   For an entire year after the tragic accident of her husband, Kelly James, becoming trapped on Mount Hood, Karen gathered facts and information about this horrible tragedy, in 2006, that changed her life forever.  This book is her story of what really happened to her husband and his two climbing partners and friends, Brian Hall and Jerry "Nikko" Cooke".  Even though, before you even begin reading the book, you already know the outcome, it is a book I found hard to put down.  Her faith, love for her husband, love for her God, and her family, and her strength after she lost her husband gave me, a reader, something to thrive for in my ow...