A Preview Review. One step better than judging a book by its cover.
Fiction Story
It's been floating around the single digits of the best selling Christian Fiction list for a while. It is currently number one in Contemporary Christian Romance.
Just weeks before Charlotte's wedding she comes across an old wedding dress with a history. The one-hundred-year-old dress was owned by three other women and the story is a revealing of that history. Read the description from Amazon.
The first chapter employs a hook of mystery. Charlotte unknowingly buys the gown from a mysterious auctioneer when she compulsively bids one thousand dollars for an old beat up trunk. She does so, almost against her will, as if driven to salvage the rustic box. The auctioneer is mysterious too. He seems to know that this is Charlotte's trunk to buy.
Christian Story
I was pleased to read a few lines that could be developed into good gospel themes. My favorite was when Charlotte made a counter bid against a man who remarked using the trunk to restore an old steamer trunk of his own. Charlotte raised the bid to seven hundred and made a comment that the trunk deserved to be refurbished itself.
To that, the auctioneer replied, "That it does young lady. I rescued it myself. And what I rescue is never destroyed."
My hopes is that that line is a metaphor for the saving grace of Christ. I think of John chapter 10. Verses 28-29
"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand."
I feel compelled to tack on verse 30 there, "I and the Father are one.” Which is probably the main point of the passage. But it also conveys that what God rescues cannot be lost, because if it was rescued by God it would have to be lost by God.
But don't allow such a powerful statement let you forget that rescue came at a very high cost, even the forsaking of our savior.
I do not know what themes The Wedding Dress will explore. Based on the description, it is possible that the story has no biblical themes at all, but based on the reviews, it clearly has a relatively high level of spirituality.
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