So glad you will go through the book club journey with me, Mariel! And thank you for those words of encouragement and prayer. I deeply appreciate them.

Florence, thank you for taking the time to share. Hearing stories like yours is so encouraging. God is gracious to use the words in this book to minister to hearts. Thanks again for sharing. Praying we continue to seek Him to be our ultimate filling.

But I’m impatient. I wanted to read in your book an “how-to restore love in your marriage”. I wanted to find the key to provoke a miracle (even though you said it was not such a book, of course).

I understand that it would have been the exact opposite of Faith : either I place myself in His hands, and stop wanting tools to be my own miracle provoking deity ; or I don’t place myself in His hands and then all the work is mine and I need those tools…
You’ve helped me realise that I want to put myself in His hands, that I’m ready for it, that I long for it. And that whenever I really abandon me in His hands, with real faith, He answers me oh so sweetly and marvelously ! And not by providing me an instant lift out of my valley to install me like a small deity on top of a sunny mountaintop !! But by helping me construct myself and my Love and my Faith while in my valley.
It will take the time it will take. It’ll bring me (and my man) where it will bring me (and him) (and us). But it will be, and your book helped me realize (or sometimes, when the hurt is too much present in my flesh, hope for) it, a fantastic journey, a beautiful and useful journey, of Love and Hope and opening of my Self. When I crumble in the mud, when my flesh longs for instant gratification and for fairytale like immediate miracles, which is frequent and oh so terribly painful, I look at Him and he smiles and helps me. Each and every time, as long as I have Faith in His love and presence for me. We are all so blessed !
Thank you Lara. I wouldn’t have been able to help myself and develop my faith if your book had not been written and made available to me, thousands of miles away from you, by God’s will.
I wish you a beautiful life, in Faith and Love.
And I will allow myself to fetch help by reading you on your blog and in your book whenever I’ll need it, each time the valley seems to tighten and close around me and I feel like there will never ever be the Light of God above me…