by Brenda
LEOTA'S GARDEN by Francine Rivers
"Every
once in a while a book comes along that never quite leaves your mind.
It's a volume - that once you've finished the last page - that last
sentence, you don't want to put it down. You just sit and hold it.
Thinking of the characters, the dynamics, the message, "Leota's Garden"
is such a book.
"Leota
is 84 and her once beautiful garden is in ruins. All her efforts to
reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless. She voices her
despair to God, her only friend. God brings a wind of change through
unlikely means. A college student and the granddaughter Leota never
hoped to know. This is a book of relationships and the author explores a
theme with countless implications for our lives today - and especially
the lives of older people and the answers that society has for us about
the care of the elderly."
Maybe
this book touched me the way it did because of where I am in my life.
Helping to care for my frail Mother-in-law, watching my parents as they
age, -- aging myself. all I can add is that this book is on my shelves
of favorite books.
Just
writing this review has started me thinking all over again about Leota
and her garden so I know I will be in a thoughtful mood all day. That's
just the kind of book it is."
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