Review: A Wonderful story of why we celebrate Easter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2011
A FACE IN THE CLOUDSThis is a wonderful story about a young couple in love, Sandy Pierson and Paul Hutchins. Paul has just been given a flyer with an assignment from his colleague Sandy, and yes she's the girlfriend. From reading the story, I feel Sandy gave Paul this assignment because he is not a Christian and she is. And she wants him in church for this very special Easter program. The assignment reads:Surrendering to ChristAn Artist's View of Salvation & GraceOf course Paul is not happy with this, being a reporter he could sure get something better than going to church for his next assignment. Sandy explains that this is part of the Easter Series for Community Focus, and this part of it would remind Metro Detroit of what the Easter season is all about. Again, Paul, not believing in God, didn't see the importance of this. A Chalk Artist would be there and create a picture of Salvation.As the story unfolds, Paul heads to the church to cover the story. He interviews the artist, which upsets Sandy because she thinks he is really rude in the questions he asks. He couldn't believe Mary was going to go to the stage and create her painting, having no idea the image she will create. She will trust the Lord to lead her during the program. This really irritates Paul, who would never do something this stupid. Paul and Mary end up in a detailed discussion about God, and the reason we celebrate Easter. As the program starts, the music begins and Mary begins her creation. Paul pays close attention to the detail as Mary continues to draw, thinking of the images. As he keeps watching and Mary nears the end of her drawing, Paul notices a face forming in the clouds of the drawing. And since I don't want to give anything away, that is all I will tell you!After the program is over, how will Paul feel about the drawing of God's salvation right before his eyes? Will it affect him at all in his opinion of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of our Lord?And Sandy, can she deal with Paul's attitude about the Lord? Will she stay with him even though he doesn't believe He is real? Or will she break up with him because they have such different views about Salvation?I was excited when Marianne wanted me to read her story. It was an honor for me to read "Face in the Clouds" and write this review. The most wonderful thing I see with the story is the way Marianne tells it to explain the Gospel, to explain just why we do celebrate Easter every year. And she does it in such a way that everyone can easily understand how to ask Christ into their lives, as well as the importance of living a life to serve Him. The awesome thing about stories like this and authors like Marianne is that people will read this story that will not set foot in a church. And when they do read Christian Fiction, they get the same Gospel story that they would hear in a church service. It's all about telling people about Jesus, and what He did for us on Calvary, that Easter so long ago. Thank you Marianne for a wonderful story.