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Summary: This book is the best definition of unconditional love
Review: When Heaven Weeps takes the reader on a journey into the depths of true love that leaves you shaken to the core. You feel the pain and hurt of love and you are left broken. You feel the healing power of love and you are left restored.This book has forced me to examine all the encounters that I have had in life where I thought that I loved someone. I am now a better lover and am learning daily to die to myself and love unconditionally with the help of God. It is definitely a must-read for everyone who wants to experience true love and want to know what love really is.
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Summary: Fiction that changed me
Review: When Heaven Weeps, is a love story dually set in a Balkan village near the end of World War II and America in the late 60's. The story of ex-Serbian solider Jan Jovic and his courage to learn why loving is dying. The story of Helen, a drug and sex addicted prisoner of her needs and the struggle to receive unconditional love. Finally, it is also the unforgettable story of Ivena, who as a young mother watched her child and most of her village die simply to fulfill a twisted soldier's game. This very game of death and love played expertly first by Ivena's daughter, then by Helen and Jan, knits this novel into a masterpiece of Christian fiction. I picked up this book to read because of three things. One was this sentence on the back, "dive into a romantic thriller like none you've ever read. Drink deeply of a love that will bring a tremor to your bones. Go ahead, it's your turn to play the game. But remember... There is a price. And no one could possibly prepare you for that price." I love books based on relationships and I am absolutely fascinated by thrillers. I had no idea what I had begun. This book not only fulfilled my thirst for a relationship based book with a thrill aspect but it delivered. It changed my thinking. It tightened my belief system. It left me asking months after I read this book "Do I believe and live what I say I believe." Secondly the author's note at the beginning of the book shared a very critical letter written by someone regarding this authors first book in the Martyr's Song series. The criticism was based on bringing an experience from the bible into present day perspective. I had not read the book but was intrigued by the idea of the author being satisfied with this criticism. And finally, I had gotten a little bored with standard formula Christian romantic fiction. I wanted something new. I wanted something that affected me like Perretti's "This Present Darkness." I received more than I bargained for and found myself changed with a closer walk with Christ as a direct result of the questions this book of fiction posed. This is not a book for teens, this is not a book you can read for a few minutes and lay aside. Prepare yourself time because you will not want to put it down, unless it is to catch your breath.
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Summary: The Point is........
Review: When you read what the author is trying to convene, as a GUY, your first reaction is "Oh brother" how can anything like this be real. To fall in love with a drug addict in matter of 2 weeks was a bit hard to swallow. But, we guys DID miss the message.
I believe the point being made is the demonstration of the Love of the Father. His Love is SO great, there is no way we can possibly understand it fully. The author was trying to show how closed-minded Christians could be a lot of times. Did you notice how religious (men) thinking got in way when Helen popped into the picture? They wanted Helen out way because it would make Jan "look bad". To me, that's what I call selfish. When it comes to MONEY, it skews the view of many, unfortunately, for the worse.
The Father's Love for Helen's of this world is beyond our rational thinking. God deliberately put the Helen's in our lives (as he did with Jan) for a purpose, to demonstrate his Love to them. But we Christian's turn out backs on them, just as Jan's friends did.
Jan starts to show the Father's Love by taking Helen back several times, especially when she willingly went back to Glen for her drugs!! He flees the U.S and returns to his home, only to learn that Helen again has willingly took her drug. How many times have Christians have given in their DRUG?? It's called SIN!!
How many times has the Father taken us back when we failed??
Nadia and the priest understood that Love, they died willing for the Father's Love. Ivena understood that Love. Jesus understood that Love.
Hey folks, how willing are you to die for someone in the name of Love??
...To feel the Love of Father, that will undo a man;
quoted from When Heaven Weeps.
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Summary: I enjoyed it very much.
Review: While I didn't find it as inspiring as the previous book in the series, (perhaps because I identified more with Job than with Hosea) I did find it interesting and fairly gripping. It is a wonderful love story, the one between God and Man more so than the one between Jan and Helen, but the one between the mortals is pretty good too. It starts out with a bang and ends with a smaller bang. It is an interesting premise the retelling of the love story of Jesus and His bride or Hosea and his bride in modern terms.
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Summary: An Absolute Blockbuster
Review: WOW! If you can read this novel and not walk away a changed person, you need heart surgery. The premis is simple: Take God's love for his bride and put it into a single man. What does it look like? Now direct that love towards one unseemly woman. What a passionate story! Throw in a catch -- if the man falls for this woman (whom he is now madly in love with) he will lose his life at the hands of her lover. If you've read Redeeming Love, by Rivers, you will love this story. If you haven't read Redeeming Love, you must read this story. If you are a man and read only one love story in your life, this must be it. If you are a woman and have read a dozen love stories before, they won't even compare. It is the kind of story that comes along only once a decade and then lingers in the mind for another. The scene in Bosnia is among the best I've ever read. This is Dekker's second novel. I read the first, Heaven's Wager, on a friend's recomondation and it took me by suprise. This one had me in tears. Where did this guy come from?
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