The Looking Glass

The Looking Glass

by  Richard Paul Evans

352 pgs.

Synopsis:

The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging in Hunter Bell, a minister who heads to Utah's gold-mining towns after his wife dies in childbirth. A man with nothing left ot loose, he plays the card tables for money to care for his youngs daughter back home. But in the heart of a driving blizzard, Hunter makes a shocking discovery —and begins to see that a life tested by unthinkable cruelty can still be rich with faith, love, and hope for a better ...

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First Line:

There are those who find God in the order of the universe - evidenced in elements as small as atomic nuclei to forces as massive as the cosmic energy that holds galaxies at bay.

My Thoughts:

I always love a good story by Richard Paul Evans, and this was a good one.  An easy and emotional read. Not the ending I was hoping for, but one to think about all the same.

Favorite Quote:

"While theirs is a story of redemption, it is, as well, a love story; they are, perhaps, the same.  For it is true that all salvation comes only in and through love." pgs. 4-5

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