Trusting In The Dark
Love’s Unending Grace by Jenna Brandt is a powerful and moving Christian historical novel dealing with war and loss.
Set in 1918, America has been in World War I for a while. Losses have been felt. War never leaves people untouched. Some cope well. Others fall to pieces seeking solace in alcohol.
War always leaves scars. Some are visible. Others are hidden. Today we would diagnose PTSD but it was unheard of in 1918.
The novel is about loss. Loss consumes. “The hole left by his absence never seemed to disappear.” We have to face a new ‘normal’. Life is never the same again.
In our loss it is all too easy to become angry – with others, ourselves and even God. God can take our anger and our pain, if we let Him.