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BOOK REVIEW: Zora's Cry
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Zora’s Cry Author: Tia McCollors Publisher: Moody ISBN: 13-978-0-8024-9861-8 Genre: Inspirational/Contemporary/Fiction
Zora Bridgeforth’s parents were killed just a few months before the date of her wedding. While going through their papers, Zora discovers she was adopted. Preston, her future husband, thinks she should try to find her birth parents, but she is still working through her grief and not ready to begin the search. Right now her life is one long endless to do list for the wedding. And besides, she’s not sure she’s ready for what she may find out about the woman who gave her up for adoption.
Monet Sullivan, Zora’s best friend, is helping plan the wedding. Most of Monet’s friends and family have tried their hand at matchmaking, but Monet hasn’t had much luck at love and she isn’t playing the game.
Paula Manns bought into it all: rich doctor husband, beautiful home. She married for status and income and it has turned to ashes. Darryl, her husband, is seldom home, gambling away their money in the real estate market, and she suspects he is having an affair.
Belinda’s mother has cancer. With her sister and brother so far away, Belinda is the principal caretaker. She and Thomas are still adjusting to being new parents to their six-month old adopted daughter, Hannah.
All four women end up attending P.O.W.E.R meetings, Purpose Oriented Women Equiped and Righteous. At first they are reluctant to commit, afraid to open up and share, but God has plans for them.
Tia McCollors has written a heartwarming, touching story about four women struggling to make sense of their lives. God brought them together for a purpose and they are blessed because of it. Zora’s cry is a tribute to the strong bonds of sisterhood that bind special friends together. As the four women struggle to overcome the roadblocks in their journey to God, we learn something from each situation.
The writer has salted this book with pithy spiritual truths. One of my favorites is when Belinda, overwhelmed by the changes in her life, complains to God about being taken by surprise. God replies, “You may be caught off guard, but I never am.”
Amen, sister. God is always in control and that’s one of life’s greatest blessings.
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