Waiting for Morning, Vol. 1 Book

This story was a hard one to read because it was very sad. I could understand the desire to be angry with God when you've lost your family to a drunk driver. The main character really asks those hard questions - why would a loving God let this happen to her family? At the same time, I felt that the main character was hard to like because of the way she selfishly neglects her one surviving daughter in her quest for vengeance, and also hard to sympathize with completely because her reasoning for being mad at God was because good things should happen to her because they always had in the past. Her whole basis for her faith was on God doing "good" (good -as in what she wanted to happen) things for her. As soon as her perfect life was disrupted, she discounted her whole faith. That begs the question: was it ever a faith at all? Of course the ending was predictable, and the main character comes back to her faith and realizes God's care for her as she steps back to see the bigger picture of our circumstances in this world. We are not made for this world; we are here for only a short time, and every good thing that we do have here is a gift from God. That's something to really think about, and this book did make me think about those things more specifically. So that was the redeeming quality of the book, for me. It essentially is a Job story with a modern twist. I recommend reading the book of Job in the Bible after reading this book because it's interesting to read what is going on "behind the scenes" between Satan and God when Job was experiencing his tragedies and trials.