Beth Webb Hart

Mary Lynn and Jackson have worked hard to give their daughters all the culture and education they didn't have access to growing up. Sometimes, Mary Lynn worries that they're working a little too hard and pushing the girls too hard, but Jackson never does anything halfway and he won't back down. He loves his children, but they always have to do more, and better, speaking several languages, playing instruments, making the highest test scores.

One morning, during her daily run, Mary Lynn experiences a miracle and starts thinking more about the God who has been relegated to the edges of her life. When she prays for Jackson to know God, the results are unexpected and not entirely welcome.

When Jackson decides to do something, he goes all the way, and doesn't let anything stand in his way. But when he ruins in one instant what they've all worked toward for ten years, will his family forgive him? When Mary Lynn realizes she isn't as into the whole "God thing" as she first thought and that she has other options, will she turn back to God and Jackson or have her answered prayers ended her marriage and her dreams?

This wasn't a favorite book, but it was a quick read and "good enough" to take the time to read.

I got this book free from the Booksneeze review program in exchange for an honest review.… (mehr)

Mary Lynn Scoville and her husband Jackson has achieved the climb up the social ladder in Charleston. Everything seems to be going just the way she wants - the perfect, successful husband, beautiful and talented children, wealth a large house and invitations to the elite parties. Then it all begins to change. As Mary Lynn begins to go to church she has an encounter with Christ and begins to live the typical "good Christian-girl" life. Knowing Christ, but not completely sold out, she asks for prayer that her husband Jackson, who long ago wrote God off, would come to a saving knowledge and a change of life. Little did she realize that this prayer would turn her perfectly perfect worldly life upside down - as is the case a lot of the time when there is a true experience with Jesus.

This is the novel "In His Steps" modernized with the principles of the book Radical combined. It is truly an inspiration to those who are asked to give up everything in the face of a radical change. What is it that you are holding on to that you don't think you could give up? Mary Lynn is about to discover that abundant life has nothing to due with what she has come to value, but will she discover it before it is too late?

Thank you B&B Communications for this review copy.… (mehr)