Summer Reading- One Tuesday Morning Review

Here I go with another Christian Fiction writer! I think I really like those kind of books. I heard about this book because someone was giving away the sequel to this book and I knew I had to read this series. The book is One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kinsbury. I had read one other book by Karen and decided to give this book a try because I really liked the other one, Like Dandelion Dust .

This book is really powerful! The story is about two families. The Micheal's and The Bryan's. One father works as a business man and the other is a firefighter in New York. The Micheal's guy's life is all about his career and he leaves little time for family and God. The Bryan guy is a dedicated firefighter and family man and has a firm testimony of Jesus Christ. Mrs. Bryan has a hard time with believing in God. Anyways the Micheal's live in California while the Bryan's live in New York. Eric Michaels was on a business trip working at his firms office in one of the twins towers on September 11th. The funny thing is that these two men look so much alike that they could be twins. I knew all along that the two were going to get mixed up identities after the fall of the towers. That really is mostly what the book is about without giving too much away. After reading this book, I thought about what I learned from this book and many of the things that I thought of, the author stated in a letter at the end some of the same things I thought of. 1. That family should come first in life, NO job should ever become more important, it is the relationships that are so important in our lives. 2. The need for God in our lives and how important that is 3. The need for daily scripture study and the time needed for developing a relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.(I love how the character of Jake Bryan read scriptures each day and wrote in a journal about how the scriptures affected him!) 4. I felt this in the book, that you could learn this, but I feel like I already know this...death is coming to all of us we need not run from it but prepare for it by living our lives the way God would have us to do. I hate to say I learned things from fiction, many of these things I already knew! You know, my family might not have much money, but we are happy and spend time together. Sometimes, I admit that I get caught up in day to day life and do not live life like it is going to be my last with my family and friends. I am planning on reading the sequel to this book, but it might take awhile to get to it because I have a few books in front of that book. I had a list of about 10 books that I told the library I wanted to read and they ordered a lot of them. I do not know how I am going to get all of them read in two weeks, but we shall see. As, you can probably tell, I really enjoyed this book. The beginning is kind of hard because they go back and forth between the families talking about their lives but once the attacks hit, the book really gets moving. The evacuation of the building was really kind of hard to read because, I kept picturing all of the people in those stairs and trying so hard to get out of a shaking building! I liked the book as you can tell and would recommend it, highly!