Saturday, September 10, 2011

Mercy Come Morning by Lisa Tanw Bergren

This proved to be a heartwarming story of forgiveness and personal redemption. Krista Mueller is estranged from her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and is in the end stages of heart failure. Years before, Krista placed her mother in a care facility and left to live her own life. Now she has returned to her dying mother's bedside and found that she has a much greater connection to her mother than she thought. Through letters and her mother's journal, Krista discovers who her mother really was and what she was trying to do for her daughter. Krista struggles with forgiveness but learns that in the end, she and her mother were searching for the same thing.

This book came to me at a point in my life when I needed to deal with forgiveness of others and the story brought tears to my eyes as I began to see forgiveness for what it can offer to everyone.

This book was provided to me free by Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers in exchange for this review.