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BOOK REVIEW: Redeeming Love
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Vickie McDonough Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Redeeming Love Author: Francine Rivers Publisher: Multnomah ISBN: 1-576-73186-3 Genre: Inspirational/Historical/Romance
Sold into prostitution as a young child, Angel learns early that men use her, leaving her feeling empty and dead inside. Her only means of survival is to keep her hate alive. Men may touch her body, but no man will ever touch her heart. No man, that is, until Michael Hosea walks through her door.
Michael, a man of honor and morality, prays and seeks God daily. When God reveals to him that the answer to his prayer for a wife is Angle, the prostitute, Michael is shocked but he seeks to make it so. He spends a small fortune in gold to visit her nightly, to talk only. His quiet spirit reaches out, drawing her to him.
Angel eventually becomes Michael's wife and leaves her wretched life behind. Angry and bitter towards men, Angel fights Michael on every issue. Michael's patience and love begins to thaw Angel's frozen heart. But as her feelings for Michael grow and the realization blossoms that God could truly be Someone who loves and cares for her, her sense of unworthiness also grows. Angel flees the love of God and her husband and runs back to the darkness, the only life she's ever known.
Will Angel ever accept the love of the Father? Will Michael, who loves Angel unconditionally, ever hold his beloved wife in his arms again?
Francine Rivers weaves a powerful and riveting retelling of the Book of Hosea. Redeeming Love is a work of art, sure to touch your heart.
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