Archive | September 2018

Laughing All The Way by Karen O’Connor

Sep6

God Is Love

Laughing All The Way by Karen O’Connor is a highly amusing look at life as we get older. With scripture references and a focus on God, it has much wise advice to impart.

There are 4 C’s covered – new choices, challenges, chances, chapters. Within each section are anecdotes, advice and each chapter ends with wit, wisdom and willpower. You will recognise yourself in the scenarios.

We make choices every day. We are only responsible for our choices, not others. “I’m not held captive to the opinions and choices of others.” We do choose how to respond though. “We can choose to focus on the hurts and disappointments, or we can… see them as opportunities to trust God.” We cannot control the behaviour of others. We must hand their lives over to God. Too often we try to do God’s job – our job is to pray. God’s job is to convict. Do not carry a burden that was never meant for you.

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He Will Find You by Diane Jeffrey

Sep5

Heart Stopping

He Will Find You by Diane Jeffrey is a marvelous, heart stopping contemporary psychological thriller that will grip you from the start. I read with pulse rapidly rising, fearful of what lurked behind closed doors.

The characters were well drawn. There was more than a hint of menace behind a polished exterior. I questioned who was the face behind the mask? Could I trust what I saw? Or was I going crazy? I ‘lived’ the action with myself in the lead role. Who could I trust? Suspicion hid behind every corner.

Family is important. They support you but sometimes they mess you up. Your early years will make or break you.

Your new best friend? Or your new bitter enemy? You decide.

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Leave Before He Kills You by Juliette Duncan

Sep1

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Leave Before He Kills You by Juliette Duncan is a powerful Christian story surrounding alcohol and drug dependency and the faithfulness of God. Based on truth, this is a story that will rock the reader’s heart. It is a gritty read with lessons for us all.

Alcohol and drug dependency destroys lives – no one is immune. The family and friends of the addict will all be affected. Promises of change are no good unless backed up by action. The addict must want to change more than they want the next drink or  fix.

We all have a God-shaped hole in our lives. “God filled a void I didn’t even know I had.” It is only when we find God that we realise what was missing. Knowing God fulfils us.

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Hidden Among The Stars by Melanie Dobson

Sep1

Greater Love Hath No Man

Hidden Among The Stars by Melanie Dobson is both a fascinating and a horrifying Christian contemporary and historical novel. It has dual timelines of 1938 Austria and present day America. It covers the most evil and brutal periods in history as the Nazis march into Austria. Characters and the reader get caught up in the depravity. There are no levels to which man will not sink to do evil. The reader is reminded of the famous words of Edmund Burke “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” In 1938 it felt like the world had gone mad. Evil lurked around every corner but there were good and brave men and women who were prepared to take a stand. “There’s always a cost for standing up against evil.”

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