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The Secret Cord by Geraldine Brooks, A Book Review by Rebecca Moll
Like the visions of the Name that flowed through Natan and the songs of David that infused the people of Israel, there is a spirit at work in Geraldine Brooks' The Secret Chord, one that confounds, considers, enlightens.
With Brooks, one must turn the page...
With the violence of pure hatred he slays his his enemies, with the love of unabashed adoration he rewards his faithful. David forges a path, building a people, building a kingdom, building a City of God.
Turn the page...
It is a path pre-set in stone or is it? I could not help but view this fearless leader, this brilliant strategist, this glorious king as a little boy, eager, earnest, naive, his heart swelling, open, believing. As he stood a young warrior, a man of many wives, a wise king upon the throne, a dying, sick old man, his was an youthful spirit.
Turn the page...
Regardless of the foretold path, David was a man, good and bad, one that felt, fully, the embrace as well as the blow. His was a spirit that soared, a spirit that suffered. And like the visions of the Name that flowed through Natan and the songs of David that infused the people of of Israel, his spirit lives on in the inhalations and exhalations of those that choose to believe,"All things are possible with God."
Turn the page...
Geraldine Brooks has done it again. Loved this story from beginning to,
The End.
With Brooks, one must turn the page...
With the violence of pure hatred he slays his his enemies, with the love of unabashed adoration he rewards his faithful. David forges a path, building a people, building a kingdom, building a City of God.
Turn the page...
It is a path pre-set in stone or is it? I could not help but view this fearless leader, this brilliant strategist, this glorious king as a little boy, eager, earnest, naive, his heart swelling, open, believing. As he stood a young warrior, a man of many wives, a wise king upon the throne, a dying, sick old man, his was an youthful spirit.
Turn the page...
Regardless of the foretold path, David was a man, good and bad, one that felt, fully, the embrace as well as the blow. His was a spirit that soared, a spirit that suffered. And like the visions of the Name that flowed through Natan and the songs of David that infused the people of of Israel, his spirit lives on in the inhalations and exhalations of those that choose to believe,"All things are possible with God."
Turn the page...
Geraldine Brooks has done it again. Loved this story from beginning to,
The End.
