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Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants-especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded; Sophia, Dusty, and the boys have all suffered tremendous pain and loss. But by the time Karen discovers this, it is too late to escape; they have become a part of her healing, and she, a part of theirs. For through their kindness and acceptance, along with the diaries of a remarkable woman who died twenty-eight years before she was born, Karen discovers hidden secrets and amazing truths that could lead her to the greatest love of all.… (meer)
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I know I got this through Amazon Kindle when it was free. Not sure beyond that. I'm giving it 4 stars because of how much Scripture and Christian living is in the story. It's a sweet romance (clean) though the part of it that deals with the diaries kind of drops off and you have to infer what happened to Esther by reading between the lines of the last diary entries and a letter that Sophia gets.
Esther must have really loved Mikkel to travel all the way to Denmark with him at 18. I still wonder why they didn't try to escape Denmark either before Germany invaded or after Fritz passed away. Why did Esther not go to Sweden with her neighbors instead of just sending her daughter with them? Certainly she/they could have returned to the U.S. She was a U.S. citizen after all.
It's sad to see how close Esther and Sophia were and how that changed--apparently to the point where Sophia couldn't even show love to Maggie (Esther's daughter) as she should have.
We see how Sophia has changed. I can't remember if that change happened after she became a Christian or for some other reason. We see Dusty finally accept God's forgiveness and forgive himself--we also see him learning to turn things over to God and to wait on God's timing. Karen struggles with believing in God. I think it's a good thing the author shows Karen's struggle with this. Too often fiction glosses over becoming a believer and the struggle some go through prior to getting to that point. I also like that the author does make it a point to show that Jesus died for our sins. One friend has pointed out that many of the youth studies her church chose just assumed people would know why they were supposed to believe instead of leading the students through the steps of who Jesus was and what he did and why. ( )
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For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.--Ephesians 2:10 NASB
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Karen opened her eyes to the sterile brightness of a hospital room.
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He said evil is the result of mankind's corruption of free will. God cannot give us free will to do good, but take away our free will when we choose to do evil. God has spent eternity calling us to Himself, but it is up to us to choose to follow His way, the way of goodness and righteousness.
Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.
Sometimes the suffering we endure is a direct result of our own rebellion, and we're reaping the natural result of our actions. Sometimes God lets us go through stuff so we can use the experience to help others at a later time. And sometimes it happens to strengthen our faith.
But for believers, God causes all things to work together for good, even those things the devil means for ill. God the Father is sovereign. He knows what's best for us. He allows us to go through times of testing and trial for our own good and for the greater good of his kingdom.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants-especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded; Sophia, Dusty, and the boys have all suffered tremendous pain and loss. But by the time Karen discovers this, it is too late to escape; they have become a part of her healing, and she, a part of theirs. For through their kindness and acceptance, along with the diaries of a remarkable woman who died twenty-eight years before she was born, Karen discovers hidden secrets and amazing truths that could lead her to the greatest love of all.
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Esther must have really loved Mikkel to travel all the way to Denmark with him at 18. I still wonder why they didn't try to escape Denmark either before Germany invaded or after Fritz passed away. Why did Esther not go to Sweden with her neighbors instead of just sending her daughter with them? Certainly she/they could have returned to the U.S. She was a U.S. citizen after all.
It's sad to see how close Esther and Sophia were and how that changed--apparently to the point where Sophia couldn't even show love to Maggie (Esther's daughter) as she should have.
We see how Sophia has changed. I can't remember if that change happened after she became a Christian or for some other reason. We see Dusty finally accept God's forgiveness and forgive himself--we also see him learning to turn things over to God and to wait on God's timing. Karen struggles with believing in God. I think it's a good thing the author shows Karen's struggle with this. Too often fiction glosses over becoming a believer and the struggle some go through prior to getting to that point. I also like that the author does make it a point to show that Jesus died for our sins. One friend has pointed out that many of the youth studies her church chose just assumed people would know why they were supposed to believe instead of leading the students through the steps of who Jesus was and what he did and why. (