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Wounded: A Love Story
If a miracle happened to you, wouldn't you tell everyone? What if they thought you were crazy?
Poor in health but rich in faith, Gina Merritt—a young, broke, African-American single mother—sits in a pew on Ash Wednesday and has a holy vision. When it fades, her palms are bleeding. Anthony Priest, the junkie sitting beside her, instinctively touches her when she cries out, b...more
Poor in health but rich in faith, Gina Merritt—a young, broke, African-American single mother—sits in a pew on Ash Wednesday and has a holy vision. When it fades, her palms are bleeding. Anthony Priest, the junkie sitting beside her, instinctively touches her when she cries out, b...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
September 1st 2008
by David C. Cook
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This is a difficult book to review. It has so many different things: tragedy, self-discovery, love, redemption, religion, and so much more woven together seamlessly.
I love Ms. Burney's affinity for flawed/broken people. The heroine is a young, black, single mother who struggles with fibromyalgia, depression, and a bipolar personality. The hero is a former award-winning journalist who is slowly killing himself through an addiction to heroin.
I won't bother with the details of the plot, but I will...more
I love Ms. Burney's affinity for flawed/broken people. The heroine is a young, black, single mother who struggles with fibromyalgia, depression, and a bipolar personality. The hero is a former award-winning journalist who is slowly killing himself through an addiction to heroin.
I won't bother with the details of the plot, but I will...more
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There was nothing special about Gina Merritt's worship that Ash Wednesday. Her prayer of "Share with me, Jesus" was her normal breath prayer of choice: "I dug my little prayer because it was my way of asking Jesus to bear my cross, while at the same time opening my hands to receive a portion of His. I loved Him." As a young, single mother with bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia, Gina was familiar with sacrifice, pain, and suffering, but when her prayer is answered with the sudden onset of stigmat...more
Wounded: A Love Story by Claudia Mair Burney, was an interesting read. I'd rated it 3 stars because I have such mixed emotions about it. The story line was intersting enough - as in it held my attention until the very end. The ending, for me, could have been better. I felt like I was left hanging a little bit, but it was also a little predictable.
I thought it was a okay read since this is Lenten season. So the theme of the book was fitting for me. The characters were interesting. When asked, pe...more
I thought it was a okay read since this is Lenten season. So the theme of the book was fitting for me. The characters were interesting. When asked, pe...more
This book is really beautiful. It is the story of an unlikely woman who receives stigmata. The author uses really wonderful language to talk about God, and weaves in the poetry of St. John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, St. Francis of Assisi and several other mystics. It also gives interesting portrayals of Christianity in America today, from a Vineyard church to Catholicism to a new monastic community. Fascinating read and very hard to put down...I really loved it!
=/ Sadly, not quite the same as her other book "Zora and Nicky". Similar, but too much at the same time. Too much religion (maybe the stigmata stuff bothered me?) that it seemed to suffocate the characters. Too much of a white (but possibly mulatto in denial) guy trying to sound black. Too many point of views that kept switching around and around and around. Wasn't really able to finish it, but it's still well enough written.
First Faith n Fiction round table book! And wow the reactions so far have been interesting..
I ended up loving this book. I loved the deeply flawed human characters, I loved the hunger for God, I loved the exploration of suffering and faith and I loved the mysticism. I can't believe a Christian publishing house took a chance on this one, but I'm so glad they did.
I ended up loving this book. I loved the deeply flawed human characters, I loved the hunger for God, I loved the exploration of suffering and faith and I loved the mysticism. I can't believe a Christian publishing house took a chance on this one, but I'm so glad they did.
It was a fascinating read, I loved the idea of such flawed people being touched by something so powerful and dramatic as stigmata. As a non christian I found the whole thing a bit too 'godly', but still a good read.
This book is about a girl named gina who becomes overwhelmed with this type of miracle god gave her. and people think she afflected it on her self but really she didnt.
Broken characters with wounded hearts, and a powerful rawness. Loved this book.
A touching story, but somehow not what I was expecting.
I couldn't put it down!
2.5. A talented author, but the content didn't much snag my interest. Very well told, though.
What a great book. Any Christian reading this will be fascinated. The author's description of main character's stigmata experiences were amazing and totally put you in the main characters shoes. I loved the concept that something like this could happen to someone so broken. And the healing powers of the blood - its confirmation of what every Christian believes about the healing and redemptive powers of Christ's blood. I loved it!
What a great book. Any Christian reading this will be fascinated. The author's description of main character's stigmata experiences were amazing and totally put you in the main characters shoes. I loved the concept that something like this could happen to someone so broken. And the healing powers of the blood - its confirmation of what every Christian believes about the healing and redemptive powers of Christ's blood. I loved it!
Honestly, I'm not sure what I think about this book. I definitely love the fact that it's not just about two people falling in love with each other but also about falling in love with Jesus. The straight-up honesty and reality of the characters also made the book enjoyable.
I loved this book. The storyline was wonderful, but what I really loved was how the author used the characters and was able to draw me into the story.
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Unworthy servant, loved by God, amazed by grace. Wife. Mother. Godmother. Friend of sinners. Novelist.
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