Member Reviews
Joy L, Reviewer
In sharing her memoir, Emily invites us on a journey of discovery where the journey itself is what shapes and makes us just as it did for her.
This is a faith walk that is not for the faint-hearted. A travelling toward home while we wrestle to live and love well with the ones who inhabit our physical space.
This is one woman's vulnerable heart open for all to see, her brokenness mirroring our own.
It's a painful and poignant look at her life as it really is and at her faith as it ebbs and flows then grows stronger in the face of adversity.
It's a heart-rending tale of miscarriage, misunderstandings, marriage and mess, adorable longed-for children and others adopted into the family, about distress, disappointment and death as it inhabits her and her loved ones lives.
This is also about the power of God's grace and the supreme gift of His love pervading the everyday and making it more than meets the eye.
In following her story we are reminded how similar some of the themes are to our own and how weakness and brokenness don't have the final say in our lives – God does.
We are brought up short by her breathlessly beautiful prose and poetic descriptions of the prosaic.
We find ourselves yearning for a place to belong just as she does, somewhere we can breathe easy and feel safe.
In the end it comes down to our life journey here taking us back to the Father's heart where we have always belonged, taking us to a place where we can rest secure no matter what comes our way.
And look forward to the eternal joy of being in community, the hope of promises being fulfilled and the peace of being in a place beyond all pretence.
As she writes, Emily shares her faith and life with tender openness and a vulnerability bordering on the courageous.
She doesn't ask that we see life or faith as she does, only wanting to point us to the One who invites us to share life with Him here and welcomes us Home with arms wide open, because “It's all any of us ever wants. To know we're not alone.”
