About the Book: Sometimes God's ways are not at all what we expect . . . and exactly what we need.
Grant and Audrey are adding grandchildren to their family left and right, but middle daughter, Danae, and her husband, Dallas Brooks, have been trying for years with no baby in sight.
Though Danae is ready to consider adoption, Dallas will not even discuss it. Despairing of ever having a family of her own, Danae decides to pour her passion and energies into volunteer work with a newly opened women's shelter in town. Looking for a good cause to fill her lonely days, she never expects to give her heart to the hurting women she meets there. She's finally learning to live her life with gratitude, but then heart-wrenching events on Thanksgiving weekend threaten to pull the entire Whitman clan into turmoil-and leave them all forever changed.
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My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this book! It tackled some heavy issues - infertility, adoption, domestic abuse - without becoming a heavy read. It reminded me how quickly we can allow our struggles, no matter what they are, to create a tunnel vision effect in our lives where we become so wrapped up in our struggle that we can't see outside ourselves which, ironically, is exactly what God uses to help us get through our struggles. When we take our focus off of ourselves and shift it to God and to others around us who are also suffering, it's amazing what it does for our perspective and how it helps heal our own pain.
The author definitely draws you into the story, captivating you with the characters and storyline. I particularly love how God's sovereignty is on clear display throughout, but particularly in the last 1/3 of the book.
Though this is the 3rd book of the series, it was not a problem that I had not read the first two. I highly recommend this one!
Thank you to Litfuse Publicity for organizing this tour and providing me with my complimentary review copy.
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