Into The Free
By
Julie Cantrell
Millie Reynolds was a loner most of her life. Her rodeo father, Jack, was hardly ever there. When he was, he normally fought with and abused her mother. Her mother, Marie, becomes addicted to pain medication and withdraws from reality most of the time. The only friend she has is an elderly man who lives next door to them on Mr. Sutton’s farm. Her mother’s parents pastor a local church, but refuse to associate with them.
Her mother declares a faith in God, yet never takes her to church. She listens as her mother sings hymns, quotes scriptures and talks about God. However, it seems that God is never around when her parents fight. And, He’s certainly not able to stop her father from beating her mother. How can she even believe in a God like that.
Julie Cantrell does a masterful job of weaving a moving story around the life of Millie Reynolds. She takes you deep inside the hurting soul of a young lady as she struggles to maintain her sanity in an insane world. Heartache, anger and despair seem to be the mainstay of her life.
She desperately needs to know whether or not God is real. However, nothing that she faces on a daily basis can point her in God’s direction. Then, one day, she hears a soul-saving sermon that slowly but surely changes her destiny. However, that sermon doesn’t come from a minister, and she doesn’t hear it inside the confines of a church.
Even though this story is Christian fiction, it portrays the heart of God. God knows how and when to touch a life in a way that will bring that life into communion with Him. The happy ending of the story was not what I figured. But, then again, God’s happy endings don’t necessarily come like we think they should either. It is well worth the read.
David C. Cook publishers furnished me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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