Intervention Book

I can't remember where I heard about this book and what made me decide to try it, but somehow I missed that this was Christian Fiction. I am a Christian; a practicing Catholic. My family goes to church every Sunday, our children go to Catholic schools, and we enjoy being a part of our church community. But when I choose a book to read, particularly fiction, I am not looking religious message. To be honest, Terri Blackstock wasn't too overbearing in this regard, I just wasn't expecting it. The first half of the book was a little slow, but she had my interest in the last third of the book. However, overall I had an issue with the "Christian" theme. I don't want this review to be a spoiler so I will just say this. The issue I have with the message "Christians" try to get across, or at least how I hear it, is that if you pray God will swoop in and save the day (or in the case of TV Evangelists they will send God in to save the day after a sizable contribution has been made). In the book Barbara, the Mother, got in the way of the Atlanta Police, who were trying to find her daughter, and put her life, and her son's, in grave danger. But by praying everything worked out. In reality she would have made things far worse for her daughter and her son. I believe we were created by a Supreme Being, God. And that he gave us a free will. With that free will we humans make many mistakes and usually pay the consequences for those mistakes. Hopefully, we learn something. To me being a good Christian means that we try our best, acknowledge our failures, ask for forgiveness, and carry on. We do not jump into a viper pit and pray for God to protect us.