OH MY GOSH Y’ALL!!!! i literally have lost my voice today…. at this moment in time i cannot speak normal. stupid allergies has made my throat unbearably scratchy, and thus preventing me from carrying a conversation with anyone. i gargled apple cider vinegar hoping it would get rid of it, but that didn’t help the scratchiness. for those of you who are not aware… if you have a sore throat, gargling apple cider vinegar will destroy the bacteria in ur throat. i promise i am not lying. it’s a home remedy that my good ol’ southern mama taught. let me know if that works for ya.
OK…. on to my book of the month!
so i know that i kind of gave you a preview of what ” Redeeming Love” was somewhat about, but not really. basically it’s allegorical story that retells the story of Hosea from the Bible. the setting is in the 1850′s in California at the time the gold rush was taking place. it begins with telling you the story of a little girl named Sarah who is rejected by all and sadly gets sold into prostitution by the age of 8. the story then begins to tell u about ANGEL the high priced “soiled dove” (who is actually Sarah from the beginning). She is as hard as stone and can never seem to find a way out of the wretched lifestyle and occupation which she is living in. along comes come michael HOSEA. the God-fearing, strong, burly farmer who is told by God to marry Angel.
i am not going to tell you the rest of the story, because i TRULY want you to read it. as i was reading for my second time i couldn’t believe how many characters that i could truly relate with. the one character that truly stuck out and that i could somewhat see myself in was Paul. Paul in this story is the one who can’t seem to understand why Michael would ever marry such a girl like Angel. he detests her. he believes Michael could do WAY better.
This story humbles me. I wonder at times what i have ever done to deserve such a love as the love Christ has for me, a digusting, vile, stupid, screw up human being like me? How many times has he had mercy on me when i truly NEVER deserved it, when all i deserved was death and hell? it is then that i am reminded that i did nothing in and of my own power to achieve this. God freely gave it to me. and even when i screw up or blatantly spit in his face, he is still there. it honestly puts me down to my knees when i think about it. this kind of love is only attainable through him. no person on this earth could ever give this type of love or redemption. i love Jesus with all my heart because he loves me, and shows it to me every second of the day. the very breath i am breathing in is only because of his mercy and love for me. how humbling is this?!!!
I will only ask u one last time to PLEASE read this book. when ur done, go read the book of Hosea in the Bible. it will only do good
On another wonderful note, Micah got accepted into the surgical tech program!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Now we will finish school at the same time!!!!! and then i can have babies!!! (please don’t tell Micah I wrote this… he doesn’t know about that little detail yet)
