A well written book about relationships, redemption, grace, generosity, kindness, our unique calling, and love? OF COURSE, this book was right up my alley!! Some books are extremely enjoyable, but this one went beyond that for me. I was INSPIRED by Theo. Theo may have been the main man of the book, but the character of Christ was written all over those pages. As someone said to Theo in the book “people like you restore my faith in humanity” - what a gift we have, as humans, to show God’s unconditional love to others. What a joy it is to use the gifts and talents, which have been specifically given to us, to make the world a better place! Father Lundy so appropriately summarized the story in Theo’s eulogy when he said “But God, in His sublime goodness, has always sent others, mysterious others, to walk with us - prophets, preachers, friends, teachers, artists, storytellers, wives and husbands, children, songbirds and rivers, even hardship and loss — to help us see clearly. They are ones who make our hearts burn within us, who call us out of our indifference, our lethargy, our death and defeat. They call us to be fully alive, or at least more alive than we were before we met them.”

This is a book that I will return to time and time again. I am so thankful that the author listened to his calling and penned this novel. 10/10