Sophie's Merry Christmas by Ruth Driscoll

Sophie’s Merry Christmas by Ruth Driscoll is a book that makes up in depth and wisdom what it lacks in size.  This book is only 40 pages but in those pages, the will of God for His children is abundantly clear. 

Sophie is a tiny speck of moisture that was hand picked by the Father to come to Earth.  On her descent to her “Destiny” the wind slices and cuts through her causing much discomfort and pain but when she looks at herself she realizes that she has transformed from a glob of moisture into a beautiful sparkling snowflake. 

Sophie always had a dream of going and joining all the water in the ocean.  Along the way, all her friends find their destinies riding the wind, sitting on top of a majestic mountaintop, or being thrown by a small smiling child.  Sophie battles the emotions that we all feel of self-pity and fear as she wonders if she will find her “Destiny.”

But as shown in this touching tale, what we think our destiny will be sometimes takes shape in a different shaped package.

 

I think this book is a wonderful reminder that if God cares so much about tiny droplets of water, birds or a horse pulling a sleigh, then how much more does he care for us.  God has deposited gifts and talents in each one of us that will help us on the way to our destiny. Sometimes we must be like Sophie and let go of our comfort zone and relax and ride the wind of God’s presence as He carries us to the place he wants us to land where we can make the most impact.

This book is a must read and I’m sure it will touch your heart as it did mine. I would recommend this book for all ages.  It serves as a good reminder no matter where you are in your journey to your destiny. 

You can visit the website and buy this book here. 

Your Life is Like a Good Book!

Hello again everyone.  I want to take a moment and just share something I have been thinking about these last few days.  I hope it will encourage you.

Life is like a good book.  Everyone has a beginning and an ending but it is what is between the covers that means the most.  When a person gets saved, God takes a pen and writes their name in the Lamb’s book of Life.  All sins are washed clean by the Blood of Jesus.  Getting saved is the first chapter in a great book.

Our lives are like a story.  Each year represents a chapter in this great story.  We have the power to make our story positive or negative by the people we hang out with or the decisions that we make.  Like all good books, there will be tough times and there will be wonderful times.  But just remember to compare your life with the greatest book of all time, the Bible.

God has a great plan for your life.  Seek after him and he will show you which way you are to go.  Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

Let your life be an uplifting, encouraging book to read for everyone who crosses your path.   

Whispers in the Valley by Lance Wubbels

I just finished reading Whispers in the Valley, Book two in the four book series entitled The Gentle Hills by Lance Wubbels.  I posted about the first book in this series a few weeks back.  This was another great Christian story about family and priorities in a world torn apart by World War II.  Jerry is home on leave from the Navy visiting his wife and newborn baby girl.  His father is having some health problems and cannot take care of the farm on his own like he used to.  Jerry applies for a special discharge from the Navy and while he is waiting for word to come of the decision, he gets about living life and enjoying his family.  Jerry becomes the local town hero when word of his heroism during combat gets around.  And it gets even better when the soldier Jerry is rumored to have saved the life of shows up talking about the man who saved him from a burning ship. 

The Macmillan family is trying their best to get back into a daily routine when a Benjamin, Jerry’s father, suffers a tragic accident and Margie, Jerry’s wife, has to deal with her brother’s drinking problem.  This book is a great story of love and forgiveness as well as focusing on what counts and not letting time pass you by. I would recommend this series to anyone that wanted a good read that deposits little words of wisdom as you read along.

You can buy this book here.

The Mercy by Beverly Lewis

Hello again Readers!!! I have just finished reading an amazing book that kept me up way after bedtime many nights so I could see what happened next.  This book is called The Mercy and is the third and final book in Beverly Lewis’ Rose Trilogy series.  Beverly Lewis kept me wondering what was going to happen until the very end.  At one point I would think I knew what would happen and then I would read another chapter and change my mind. 

The last two books left the readers hanging in the middle of two sisters lives. One, Hen, is taking care of her temporarily blind husband wondering if their marriage can survive the strain being put on an already weak link.  The other, Rose, has just broken off her engagement to the man she thought she would marry and is still pining for her lost love that is off on his own in the English world.  Will he come back and sweep her off her feet or will she find someone else in the Amish community to marry?

This is a story of incredible love and forgiveness.

These three books are worth buying and reading even if you only read them once and lose them. But me, I think I will save them and get them out at a later date so I can ride the back roads of Pennsylvania Amish Country in a horse drawn carriage in the freezing cold with snow falling like a blanket on the ground around me.

This is a must read!!

You can buy this book here. 

Close Enough To Hear God Breathe

I just finished reading Close Enough to Hear God Breathe by Greg Paul.  I requested this book with high hopes of what it had to offer.  In all honesty, I was disappointed.  The first few chapters were good, stressing how much God loves us like any good father cares for his children.  Yet after the first few chapters, the message became redundant and the passages hard to follow.  He goes back and forth between scripture and stories and his interpretations of the message presented. 

Greg Paul’s concepts are good and I liked part of the poetic language and prose but in the end I felt that everything that had been said could have been spoken in a book half that size and been more poignant and captivating.   

In many of the chapters Greg Paul wrote stories about his family, which were well written and entertaining with good points, but I could not see the correlation of the stories with the rest of the chapter.  His stories are poetic and interesting but it was like they just came out of nowhere.  The titles of the chapters seemed to have little or no correlation with the message being portrayed in the writings.

Greg Paul did have a catchy title for this book.  I agree with the author’s message on the unwavering love of our eternal Heavenly Father.  However in this case I feel that there are other books out there that reveal this same message in a much clearer, concise, and intriguing way. 

You can purchase this book here.