~ Faith in Love ~
Love through me, Love of God.
Make me like thy clear air
Through which, unhindered, colors pass
As if it were not there.
(Amy Carmichael, Toward Jerusalem)
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
~CFBA-Embrace Me~
This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Embrace Me
(Thomas Nelson March 4, 2008)
by
Lisa Samson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Lisa Samson is a Christy Award-winning author of 19 books, including the Women of the Faith Novel of the Year, Quaker Summer. Lisa has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a talented novelist who isn't afraid to take risks."
In Embrace Me, the latest novel by acclaimed author Lisa Samson, readers are privy to the realization that regardless of outward appearances…hideous, attractive, or even ordinary…persons are all looking for the same things: love, forgiveness, and redemption.
This story explores a world that is neither comfortable nor safe, a world that people like Valentine know all too well. Masterfully crafted by Samson and populated by her most compelling cast of characters yet. It is a tale of forgiveness that extends into all spheres of life: forgiving others, forgiving oneself, forgiving the past.
She lives in Lexinton, Kentucky, with her husband and three kids.
ABOUT THE BOOK
 Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful...a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.
When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattooed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster...and improbably close to grace.
Valentine, due to her own drastic self-disfigurement, ahs very few friends in this world and, it appears as if she may be destined to spend the rest of her life practically alone. But life gives her one good friend, Lella, whose own handicap puts her in the same freakish category as Valentine. As part of Roland's Wayfaring Marvel and Oddities Show, a traveling band of misfits, they seem to have found their niches in an often curiously cruel world.
Residing in a world where masks are mandatory, Valentine has a hard time removing hers, because of her disfigured face but more so because of her damaged soul. It is much easier for her to listen endlessly to different versions of a favorite song, Embraceable You, and escape reality. Yet, life has more in store for her when she meets Augustine, replete with the tattoos, dreadlocks, and his own secrets. With his arrival, Valentine's soul takes a turn.
If you would like to read the first chapter, go HERE
My Thoughts~Wow! That was the only thought I had reading through the first chapter of this book. I then turned to my husband and said "I'm thinking I won't go to sleep tonight until I've finished this book." I loved every page of it. The way that Lisa Samson uses the characters of the book to represent the body of Christ is spectacular. Agape love, forgiveness, honoring parents even when they don't deserve it, mercy, grace and lovingkindness are key concepts that are beautifully illustrated throughout this book. I highly recommend reading this book, you will not be disappointed.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by blessedwith2angels
Have you read Lisa Sampson Hollywood Nobody series? I was impressed with the way she got her message across to teen readers.
Pam
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