In the struggle for healing, when do you fight and when do you surrender?
Ryan Alexander-Coe is a talented photojournalist who has been on assignment all over the world. But when her two sons choose to live with their father after her divorce, Ryan must give her career up for a small-town newspaper job in order to be near them.
Life spirals out of control when her fifteen-year-old son is arrested. Desperation--both over the fact that she cannot believe her son commited this crime and that he refuses to talk to her--sends her anger level soaring . . . and eventually sends her storming into Dr. Sullivan Crisp's office in search of ways to cope with her anger. Sully is in town assisting at one of his clinics and continuing his search for Belinda Cox, the woman whose guilt-inducing counseling caused the death of his wife and daughter. When Sully's search ends in disaster, both he and Ryan will have to fully rely on God--rather than themselves--to survive these storms.
My Thoughts:
I appreciated this book very much. The Sullivan Crisp Series (of which this is book 3) has been a huge favorite of mine! I love they way that Rue and Arterburn tell the story and communicate the raw human emotion surrounding this story. Surrendering to God is much easier said than done, and this book does a wonderful job in demonstrating someone's journey through the process of surrendering control of our emotions, our futures, and the futures of our children.
A wonderful book! I highly recommend the whole series!
Book Bullets (my new way of summarizing the book):
- My rating: 5 stars
- Genre: Contemporary
- Themes: Surrendering to God, dealing with anger
- Part of a Series: yes, book 3 in "Sullivan Crisp" series
- Publication year: 2009
- Pages: 416