Lance, it's good to see you are
still around - and John thanks for answering my
questions
You've given me some food for
thought today.
Book title ???? a brother, John
It's a sad book brother John
- title is "This Dark World" (A Memoir of Salvation Found and
Lost)
by Carolyn S.
Briggs.
Story begins with a young girl,
part of a family abandoned by their biological father who
looked
for love in all the wrong
places, became pg and married her musician boyfriend at age 17yrs
after
which they both made a
committment to Christ and became part of a "cultish" patriarchal hippie
group which became the focus of
their lives for 20yrs. They raised their three children in
this
environment. However, at
age 38yrs the author decides with her husband's blessing and
financial
support to get a degree in
English which puts her in some unsavoury circles and the final
outcome
is that she turns from
everything she once embraced, divorces her husband and embraces the
world.
San Francisco Chronicle calls
her "sincere and humble" I would agree with the sincere part. She
is
quite open but not nearly as
enlightened as she imagines herself to be. This author takes no
responsibility for her own
choices and writes as though she were a victim. To me it appears
that
she lays the blame on her long suffering husband for her
"unloving spirit" most likely inherited
generationally and satan didn't
have much trouble convincing her to divorce her husband and
leave her youngest daughter at
14yrs old.
The saddest of all is the
title of her book, you can't lose something you never had. Salvation is
a
walk of grace. She can't
undo all the lives she has hurt but she can come to her senses and
escape
from the snare of the
devil.
