W. Dale Cramer's Sutter's Cross is a novel about trusting God. Sutter's Cross is a tourist town set in the Appalachian Mountains where the town natives like everybody to be the same. Have the same ideas and the same attitude, unpredictability is unwelcome....until Harley comes to town. Harley has long hair is unshaven and is wearing threadbare clothing. He has peaceful eyes able to see into one's soul and ears that are able to hear God's Voice. Though their first impressions of Harley are to stay away, with the help of a respected old lady named Ms. Agnes, the town folk soon change their minds and start to listen to Harley. He teaches them two lessons that ultimately change the lives of everybody in town. First, "where you end, that's where God starts. All you got to do is ask." Second, all you have to do is "let go."
This book was a great read. Harley and the similarities to Jesus Christ captivated me right from the beginning. The children saw those similarities right away while the adults just couldn't put their fingers on what it was that seemed to draw them to him. I was reminded of the passage in the Bible where Jesus says, "unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." A great present day illustration of what Jesus could be like if He were walking the earth today.