What have I been doing with my time? Reading!!! I have rediscovered the author, Francine Rivers. She is a Christian fiction writer who drew me into her stories and began my love for reading as an adult (for which my family is less than grateful, more about that later). I read The Scarlet Thread about 8 years ago and then again about 2 years ago and was captivated by it. I'm not sure why it has taken me this long to go back to her stories after I feel in love with the other one, but I have now. I have just finished Redeeming Love and was lost in it. I have to tell you that I am embarrassed to say what a horrid wife and mother I become when I am into a book. My family in afraid to come through the living room for fear that I will tell them they are being too loud, I don't do laundry, I don't cook, I don't pick up the house. I get obsessed about what is going on in the book. I am by no means saying this is right, it is just the reality of it.
This book is worth the time! It tells of a girl who was sold into prostitution at the tender age of 8. Then, takes you to where a man falls in loves with her and her resistance to his love because she was never taught to love. I definitly shows you how redeeming God's love is for all of us and how hard it is to follow God's plan when it is so different from our plan.
I just checked out another of her books and have only read about 3 pages of it. I this my whole family let out a groan when they saw I was starting another book. Hopefully I can engage in moderation!
