Robin is one of my favorite authors in Christian fiction. I love her stories, and I love her pictures of God.
If you have not read the Christy Miller series, I highly recommend it. It starts with Christy's first true encounter with God on the beach in Newport Beach and follows her journey through high school and college, and finally into married life.
Robin has a way of making her characters come to life and also weaving goodness and grace and friendship into her tales.
This is one of my favorite books in the series.
Without giving a way too much of the plot I will say that much of this book finds Christy and Todd going through a rough patch in their marriage. Their faith is tested and God's plan remains clouded from their sight for longer than they would have thought.
This theme of the book is highlighted in the following quote from Todd, "He squinted his tear-filled eyes, looking like a miner who had been doing the best work he could in a dark place and was now coming out into the full sunlight."
This is a beautiful picture of faithfulness. And a reminder that God will never let us down. It reminds me of the verse in 1 Peter 2:9.
"But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light."
Happy reading!
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