Redeeming Love

If you’ve ever wondered

Why an intelligent woman
would ever choose to sell herself

AND

Why she would continue doing it
when she could 'easily' choose freedom…

OR

If you just need a good book recommendation…

...you may want to read Redeeming Love. This is my all time favorite book. I have bought it for friends more times that I can count. I even led a Bible study on it once. Right now I’m reading it for the 3rd or 4th time, and I am loving it. It is so, so good. It’s not fun subject matter but it’s dear to my heart and it inspires me to go and find GOLD. Guess what it’s about? Yep, you guessed it.

The book is an incredible study on why and how women live in this lifestyle…and why it is so difficult for them to leave it. I’ve heard it said that

it’s ‘easy’ to get a woman out of a brothel--
the hard part is keeping her from returning back to it.

Redeeming Love gives us a clearer understanding of the whys and truly teaches us to have compassion toward these dear women by making it all 'come to life' in the form of a novel. A riveting, you finish-it-in-3-days type of novel. It's a fast, easy and interesting read.

It’s actually a re-told story of the book of Hosea in the Old Testament where God tells a man, Hosea, to marry an adulterous woman (which symbolizes His people, Israel).

On many different levels, I think it's an incredible book. Let me know if you read it and what you think.

Also, I have to tell you that I wrote the author, Francine Rivers, an email one time in 2006 when we were coming to visit Hamburg, asking her if she had any German versions of the book or of any other of her novels (her Mark of the Lion Trilogy is historical fiction and is equally powerful yet in a completely different way) that I could take with me for the women. A few weeks later a big box arrived with a bunch of German translations. All on her dime. How awesome is that?!

I contacted her about a month ago and told her about how we're here full-time now and if she had any German or English copies of Redeeming Love to donate or that I could buy at a reduced rate that I could give to certain women in the brothels that I think would be ready for it. She wrote back and said she doesn't have any more German copies (probably because she sent them all to me in 2006!) and that any overflow she already gives to someone who forwards them onto missionaries. But she had a great idea--she said to see if anyone may want to buy copies and then donate them to the women. So if you read it and love it, and want to pass on your copy, or buy a new one for one of our women, let me know!

***postscript: a friend emailed me with the great idea of having anyone interested in donating this book to the women here to have them buy it thru amazon.de, which is amazon, germany, in order to save shipping costs from the u.s. read the end of this post to get more info...