Review: Healing and Forgiveness
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2013
Book exchanged for a review~Luke Connors is still grieving over his wife and children's deaths. He's slowly making progress in therapy with the help of brother and sister team of Dave and Christine Hartford. Leaving his therapy session stumbles upon on old friend from twelve years before Emma Garner Brody. She recently moved back to home to start fresh. Emma has a lot of emotional and physical scars that leave her wary of people's motives. The only person that seems to understand Emma is her brother Jimmy. Luke and Emma agree to be pals that support one another no matter what. Jimmy has been talking to Emma and his mother Louise and pushes Emma into speaking with her. Emma dreads talking with her mother yet can't seem to say no to Jimmy's request. Emma reluctantly agrees to spend time with her mother in her home but dreads what she knows will come next~nothing is ever good enough for her mother. Jimmy is treated like he's perfect whereas Emma is treated like the naughty child. Emma really tries to get along with their mom but she never gives an inch or otherwise. Through it all Emma has Luke's support and understanding. Luke is suddenly fighting his feelings because he doesn't want to scare Emma off. Luke sees what Jimmy cannot which is Emma is drowning in trying to measure up to their mother. Will Jimmy see Emma's side of things? Will Emma and Louise make up? What will Luke do about his feelings? Will Emma see thru all of her pain and suffering to be free? Your answers await you in Broken Vessels.Broken Vessels is really a story about forgiveness, faith, trust, and hope between these four people. I cried thru some parts of this book because it really it home. Broken Vessels is what God uses to make a perfect whole although we may be broken it is he who completes us.