Archive | February 2019

The Space Between Us by T.K. Chapin

Feb8

Love, Love, Love

The Space Between Us by T.K. Chapin is a marvelously powerful contemporary Christian novel about love. This love is not a love that diminishes this is the love of God for His children and the love of His children for each other. It is a love based on 1 Corinthians 13. A love that puts others first. A love that takes care of the lost and the lonely.

I love the idea that “God is pursuing you.” No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, God wants a relationship with us.

The novel explores parental relationships. Earthly parents may fail us but God never will.

Trust is a major theme. We need to trust God with our lives. He only wants the best for us. “God’s not a genie… He has a plan. I just need to trust him.”

We must never judge others. We do not know what they have been through. “ ‘You here to preach?’ ‘No… I’m here to love.’ “

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The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Feb7

Positively Charming

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Scaffer and Annie Barrows is a positively charming historical novel. There is a totally wonderful film too which I saw before reading the book.

Uniquely laid out in a series of letters, the reader enters a bygone age. Life was simpler but life was hard living under the Nazis in occupied Guernsey.

Set during 1946 the letters discuss the war years. There is a bonding together of residents, united by their love of food and books.

There are some hard to read scenes set in Ravensbruck and Belsen concentration camps.

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Remember Me by D.E. White

Feb7

A Roll Of The Dice

Remember Me by D.E. White is a contemporary psychological thriller that will draw you in from the start and keep you glued until the final page.

It is a story of truth and lies. Lies told to cover up truths but can you separate the real from the lie?

Friendships are complicated affairs. Some begun in childhood last until adulthood. Some are bound together by lies that spiral out of control.

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Home Another Way by Brenda Anderson

Feb5

Re-shaped By The Master Potter

Home Another Way by Brenda Anderson is a delightful contemporary Christian romance. It is the eighteenth book in the Potter’s House series but can be read as a stand-alone.

God is at the very core of the novel. We are all called to be His eyes and ears, His hands and feet to a hurting world. “We were God’s hands and feet.” The story surrounds the plight of the homeless. We are to be “Jesus to broken people.” People become homeless for all sorts of reasons, they need to be shown hope and love, not judgment. They need to know that they matter. “She was seeing them, every person, and making each feel important.”

Sometimes it seems as if the homeless are invisible as people walk on by. Every homeless person is dearly loved by God. “We need to see them not as homeless people, but as children of God.”

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