I finished this book in 2 days. Read every word. This book is based on the book of Hosea in the Bible. Based on how God asked Hosea to make a prostitute his wife.
Intense. Thought provoking. Intense.
There were moments when I was reading that I teared. Michael Hosea made a high class, high profiled prostiture his wife. And he NEVER once stopped loving her, even when she left him to go back to prostitution and searching for freedom.
Angel never knew love. Love to her had always been rejection, pain and mockery. Everyone wanted a piece of her but noone ever did saw value in her until - Michael. Michael nursed her back to health after she was beaten almost to death by that crazy guard at Pair-A-Dice. Her husband showed her kindness, gentleness, acceptance, forgiveness, grace and love. He showed her that not everyone was rotten. In her world, noone had good intentions. He showed her, God's love.
When Angel ran away the final time, Michael knew that he couldn't go back to get her again this time. She had to make a choice of her own. She had to come back by herself. In the difficult moments, Angel met God, and she finally knew that God does love her, and had always been looking out for her, waiting for her to trust Him. And fly she did after finding God. She found a refuge for those who were like her, who had no way out because they knew no other trade except selling their bodies.
Angel met God, and God met her. The book reminded me of how much God loves us, and the extent that He went and would go to redeem us. Redeem us of dignity, love us into dignity and nurse us into dignity. God's love gives us worth far more than anything else could. His love shown to us teaches us to love ourselves, and how to love others. His love knows no bounds.
Strongly recommended. Yeah, you should go read it. Maybe through the book you will learn how to love a woman, or as a woman, you will know how God loves us. By saying this I do not mean that God doesn't love men, so please don't be offended. =) God loves you as much as He loves the women. It's just that I think women can relate very well to the characters of this book.
Good stuff.
