But most of all, if you are open to it, it will make you think.

Covering 1960 to the present day, this timely and relevant Christian novel will make you cry. They have to address feelings, suspicions, attitudes and fears that threaten God's redemptive purpose, and could destroy lives in the process.Īuthor Lynn Cornell crafts this compelling Christian fiction story of a woman and her family who have to come to grips with their faith and the many challenges they face that force them to assess its relevance in their lives. Knee-high grass and pink geraniums blanketed the fields in a gentle sway. The morning was hot but tempered by a mild cool breeze. Like a tapestry stretched across the heavens, a golden- orange sun and puffy white clouds decorated a crystal blue sky, as only God could do. Then suddenly, the family is forced to deal with a shocking reminder of their turbulent past. A pleasurable sigh escaped my lips as I stepped onto the porch. They had no idea it would be their last full night together, and the last night they would ever step foot in their beloved home again.Ī horrible and unspeakable act of hate and prejudice shatters their peace and causes Katie and her family to move to California, where she attempts to rebuild her life.Īlthough she had put hundreds of miles between herself and her Alabama farm, there were some things that followed her to California things she could not outrun things she would have to grapple with if her life, and the lives of her children, were ever to return to normal. On one night in 1960, Katie went to sleep along with her husband in their modest home.

Here was where she was raising her children to love God and love others. William Wells Brown, The Color Master: Stories (Thorndike Press Large. Here, she could witness God's handiwork in the beauty of the land. Sin and RedemptionChyta A Curry, Hustlers and Homesteaders: A History of Montana. Katie's rural Alabama farm, which she shared with her activist husband, was her oasis, her retreat.

The Color of Redemption by Lynn Cornell