I feel very inadequate to give a review for such a life-changing, personal book, but I want to spread the word. This book is too good - too honest - to miss.
In Thin Places: A Memoir (Zondervan), Mary DeMuth opens up the poignant reality: God is there in the midst of our sorrow and pain. Mrs. DeMuth is honest about her suffering and real about her responses. She writes of "thin places" in her life - places where "eternity and the mundane meet". She writes all the details of the tragedy that encompassed her in her early life. She delves into areas that most people would keep secret.
Her reason for this is plain: it is not to make us feel sorry for her, but to show us that even there, even in that dark and dirt, God is there and God is love. When you feel worthless and unworthy, God chooses you anyway. He is there to redeem and rescue.
This book is one of the best memoirs I have ever read. Mrs. DeMuth holds nothing back, and in doing so she is reaching out to anyone who has ever suffered and wondered where God was during those terrible times.
Part of me wants to hoard Thin Places and keep its treasure here with me; another part of me wants to share it with as many people as possible. There is hope written on every page.
I know it is only early February, but this book is one of my favourites of 2010.
If the sharing part of you wins out ;) I'd borrow it.
ReplyDeleteBut not until I'm finished with the other two I've got from you. :D
Ha! The sharing side wins. :)
ReplyDeleteLet me know when you're done with those, and you can have it.
..Not for keeps, though. ;)
ReplyDeleteI read it today. It resonates with me. Mary is brutally honest as she shares her pain, her joys, and her meeting God in the thin places. She is a grace-filled, wise woman; she is a wretch, too, who struggles with sin and perfectionism.
ReplyDeleteSorta like me.
I can honestly say I love her. She is my sister in Christ. She loves my God. Can't wait to fellowship with her some day, either here or in heaven.
I get it next.
ReplyDeleteMe too! Me too1 *waves frantically*
ReplyDeleteNice job on your review. I did one too and it's been fun to see what other people wrote. God bless.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your amazing words about the book. How humbling! God is good. I pray many are blessed.
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