"A Fair share of "Faith" of a Juan Dela Cruz

“There is no freedom this world can give like God gives to us his children this beautiful”

Freedom!! Was the last word Mel Gibson shouted before he died in his movie “Braveheart” That was for that era, where freedom can only be afforded by blood. The sad thing is we are still in search of freedom or should we say we are self-proclaimed free. There is no freedom this world can give like God gives to us, his children, this beautiful. If there is fear, guilt or something that holds us from doing God’s will, like bondages or strongholds this book pin-pointed, well, there is no Freedom.

“An analogy that is precise and paralleled on God’s stirrings and purposes for us”

This will be the second book that I have read under the topic of “Handling Tough Times and looking it in a godly perspective” and I guess there are still dozens of book of this type in a different context, level of analogy, some are pragmatic and some are theoretic but in the end all of them end up saying “Trust God”

Like a tree that have branches and sub-branches, if you’re going trace all of those branches and its sub’s, you’ll end up in one big trunk.

Matt R. Willis was just a co-author; yet he can still surf on the waves of wittiness of his grandfather, Avery T. Willis Jr., even though his writings on this book were more on examples of things on his perspective. Examples that happened and he experienced along his way to God.

The analogy about the eagles makes even more sense on how to handle God’s stirring on our lives. An analogy that is precise and paralleled on God’s stirrings and purposes for us. That quality makes this book to stand out among others.

With some trivia to jump start some of the chapters and also the readers. A must read, even though, like what I said, there could be dozens of book of this type, it is still healthy to have different perspective on perceiving tough times.

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Since Kelly Flynn needs to arrange some more paper works for the death of her Aunt Helen and knowing she’s next to kin to inherit her Aunt Martha’s spread of land together with a barn and a herd of cow, sheep and alpaca, she needs to stay for a while at her small cottage and knit. She joined a group of tourists who wants to see what an alpaca is and learn on how they get fleeces from them. The tour turned out to be a nightmare when they recognize who’s lying on the floor bled to death; it was Vickie, the owner of the alpaca ranch and Kelly’s fellow knitter at Lamnspun. Many speculations prowl among knitters at Lambspun, since a bracelet of Eva Bartok was found in the crime scene, Eva, also a knitter was said to have an affair on Vickie’s husband, Bob Claymore. Jayleen, one of Vickie’s friends ask Kelly to help her out on arranging Vickie’s financial and estate papers. Debbie arrived in no time to know what happened to her mom. But it’s like she arrived to meet her death, at her mother’s ranch, she was found lying on the floor, dead, police said it was her asthma-attack that killed her. Since Kelly was working on Vickie’s paper works, she needs to visit from time to time the office of Vickie for the files she needed. She noticed an icon blinking on the computer screen; it was for an unread message for Debbie’s email account. That message made a huge turning point on solving the death of Vickie and Debbie. It leads to the final confrontation to nail down the suspect.

Almost a huge portion of the story seems to be a prologue on Kelly staying and living on Fort Connor, more on neutral and light narrations that makes this book falls beyond under the category of mystery and suspense, say, a sub-genre. As the series of the “Knitting Mysteries” progresses the characters’ deeper personalities reveals.
You will start basking about the story until you realize your heart was pumping like hell and notice you’re finished reading it. I can say this is the author’s expertise, sudden burst of action and suspense at the first and final confrontation.
Same fast-forward pacing like its predecessor (Knit One, Kill Two)
It’s not for a hardcore action-packed reader but this could be on the top of your list for easy reading with a twist of mystery.

Fresh new Author of the “A Knitting Series”, Maggie Sefton

Kelly Flynn a Corporate CPA, needs to return to her hometown, Colorado. It’s not for a family reunion or a corporate business trip but to attend the funeral service of her aunt Helen. The police say that the old lady loans a whopping twenty thousand dollars in cash before she got robbed that night and killed by a mysterious person. In the crime scene something was found, a broken needle together with Helen’s missing knitting’s and the precious “family quilt” which was hung in one of the windows.

Kelly’s instinct says there was something wrong and her gut twisted for the fact that her Aunt Helen loaned that much money. In search for the truth, Kelly uses her instinct alone together with her new friend knitters of Lambspun. She had found out that Helen has a long distance relative somewhere within the vicinity named Martha. She goes there to ask some question regarding Helen’s past and found out that before Helen died Martha remembered Helen saying “Our sins in the past had come to haunt us”. The last thing Kelly remembered doing was poking into somebody’s life in search for information.

It was like a rollercoaster ride of suspense, every plunge put you to a heart pounding tension and anticipation, on your way to the peak is like a cool-down to prepare you for another dip. Until you reach the highest peak that comes with the deepest fall that puts you to a high speed plunge, eventually you feel like the coaster just run-out of rails to hold on and you falls into consciousness and found out the that book you’re reading is done. The characters are well rounded; it’s like looking into swatches of yarns with different color, texture, thickness and softness. Realistic and breathing characters. Nice twist on misleading the readers by adding the love triangle between some of the characters. Maggie was not much of a “details” author, the details were just enough to make it dense and compact for a mini series like this. Fast-forward style of writing, some scenes was omitted without messing the story line.

Knowing Kelly doesn’t have any background on Crime Scene investigation is the ace of this series, she can show you how instinct can be so powerful and reliable on solving crimes together with enough information.

It all happen in an ordinary town filled with ordinary people with ordinary problems, which we all do encounter somewhere in our life. When something extraordinary struck this small town when an old man involuntarily touches everybody’s heart and getting himself involved in solving their unnoticed problems. After hearing their share of stories, he always says “you do lack in PERSPECTIVE” after a couple of explanations and realizations he will leave them enlightened and with their hearts at eased.

I’ll give five for five because the book is so inspiring. As the story progresses the definition of the word “PERSPECTIVE” gets clearer and clearer. I really like the sudden change of mood from being light to the beginning till you reach the last chapter where you get a bit puzzled and crave you to go on the story and end it with a seed of perspective in your heart. To wrap it up! The book is so good.