The main characters are Melinda Colson and her love for a gamekeeper Evan. She's in love with him, but like many men he won't commit to her fully until he thinks he can support her. The writing in this book is breath taking and believable. I really liked the way the Writers' of the book tied nature in with Melinda and Evan's love story.
In every relationship, in my mind love is made up of a 'sacred' language and geography that only the two people in that relationship can navigate and understand. Melinda Colson longs for the love of her life to give her his heart fully, and what she isn't aware of at the time is that Evan needs to be away from her to really learn that he doesn't have to wait for everything to exactly the way he thinks it needs to be to have a successful relationship with her. That in fact they can build a foundation together as real partners in life and marriage.
Real love shouldn't have to wait forever after all it should be nurtured and used to create a loving relationship day to day. That's the real lesson in this beautifully written story. And who doesn't love a real love story! I recommend this book to everyone.
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It's an amazing feeling to have this translation of the Bible come to life in your hands. In these crazy, sometimes chaotic times, with every other joe deciding what 'reality' is and then getting a reality show for saying so. This New Living Translation of the Bible called: "The Way" ties together the bible stories we all remember growing up to now using black and white photos that really speak to today's generation and to those before and one below. As well, as current stories of real people who struggling with issues that were similar in some aspect to our ancestors. It speaks of hope, strength and resilience that real people have felt at the bottom of the barrel in luck, or just plain out and out forgotten. The beauty of their spiritual reawakening and learning to love of self and others is awesome. My personal favorite has always been Job in any copy of the bible. Job is an everyday kind of guy who just cannot believe how so many negative things can keep happening to him. We've all felt like Job at various times I'm certain of it. However, he may question God on matters that our human hearts have trouble understanding, but he never stops loving God. Even in my own Job moments, when I wonder the whys of certain things I do still love God. What's more the answers inevitable come forth in much better ways then I could ever have brought about by trying to force myself to understand and another point in time. This Bible "The Way" I think is a wonderful way to make the Bible exciting and feel much more relevant to all of us. It takes the fear factor out and deals with our hearts and minds in a deeper, yet gentler way, it's how I percieve God to be. I've already had many discussions with my family about "The Way" and they are very curious to understand what I'm talking about. So I am recommending this book "The Way," to whoever wants a current, easy to understand copy of the Bible. It will really make you go hmmmmmmmmm.Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
The book I read for June is called "Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail" by Paul Stutzman. When Paul Stutzman's wife is diagnosed with breast cancer they are both changed and fight the disease hard. He tells the story most candidly and you can tell this is the kind of man he is. For the first while after he loses her to cancer he too is lost and is looking for answers. Something in Paul is drawn and calmed by nature, particularly the Appalachian trail. He decides to embark upon a 2, 176 mile journey on the trail, and documents his trip. His story really spoke to me on many levels: Life is made of transitions and changes and it's not easy when things are going all backwards to know what the next step is. They say we use 10 percent of our brain and I think that the other 90 percent is where God speaks to us in ways only we will understand subjectively. Paul Stutzman was called out to the land and the tree-song to help heal him. This book is a wonderful reminder of the strength of nature in reaffirming our relationship back to our ourselves and to God. Paul does find his way and his wife's spirit can be found in his words and in the conversations he has along the way. It is a book that is wise and pays the highest respect to his wife. I think from teenagers to seniors this book is a kind offering of hope and of strength and healing, we call all walk away with something from this most honest journal by Paul Stutzman. 
Spring is almost here and how happy that makes me. As happy as this book made me to read. The book I read for February is "Words Spoken True" by Ann H. Gabhart. Moxy, is what I think of regarding the lead character in this book: meet Adriane Darcy. She grew up around the printed word that being her Father's newspaper office back in the Civil war era. I loved Adriane's iron clad will that shines through in her most challenging moments. Yet she's not so beyond reaching, and that's exactly what happens when she meets a certain Blake Garrett an Editor from a different, competing newspaper who finds ways to push Ms. Darcy's buttons, as does happen in one way or another in most potential relationships of that reader I'll leave to your musings, until that is you read this page turner of a book. The story is emotional and well told, it doesn't falsely draw at your heartstrings, every raw feeling you feel is well earned and not spoken down to you which is a delight.
