Book Overview
Helen Gumienny Glowacki s sixth novel, Abiding Faith, Hidden Treasure, carries her readers to Iraq and through a devastating terrorist attack that harms a one-year-old boy. This event, and the heartbreaking events that occur back in the United States, create bitter questions in the heart of a young man about why God allows pain and injustice to exist. His story reconciles the age old question of why an all-powerful God does not end the cruelty He witnesses, especially when God sees the pain of those who love Him.
This young man meets a woman who challenges him intellectually and recognizes that his use of pithy comments and cutting sarcasm through which he expresses his anger, is to protect his gentle heart. When he meets her family, he arrogantly challenges them to a debate about how creation and evolution can co-exist, and about the enemy they believe instigates the injustices he describes. He is shocked and stunned by their answers and stubbornly determines, led by his curiosity,to prove them wrong.
As his best friend gains an understanding of God s plan, and why He allows certain situations to occur, this young man´s heart remains hardened. He continues to aclaim his agnosticism despite a growing awareness that God seems to have a plan for everything that occurs in the world. But the young man´s angry attitude saddens the family because they see how it holds him back. Even as they are strengthened by God´s love and His help in their struggle to accept the difficult and painful circumstances in their lives, and this young man sees this happen, his heart remains hardened against all things pertaining to a committment to God.
The young man´s hero and role model is Bill O Reilly, host of The O Reilly Factor on Fox News. It is from watching this program that he learns the unique words he uses in his pithy sarcastic comments, and from where he develops many of his political positions. He is proud of his clever and cynical responses, and will not and cannot change his ways despite his observations that God seems to speak directly to this special family he has come to love. He is intrigued as he sees God revealing biblical mysteries that help them cope, but nevertheless he continues to harbour his resistance to God, continuing to claim that an all-powerful God should not be complacent in the face of evil. But when he falls in love with the woman who challenges his way of life, and her family shows him what true friendship and love entails, despite his beloved cynicism, his resistance slowly falls away.
The story ends with the arrival of four letters from the grave that bring him a profound experience of faith. And with this experience, his journey to find a God he can trust tugs on the reader´s heart and provides a greater insight into God´s power and greater plan. One reviewer said of this novel "I´m a grown man and I cried reading this wonderful story!"
This sixth novel by Helen Gumienny Glowacki, Abiding Faith, Hidden Treasure is fast paced, informative, heartwarming, and it is filled with incredible biblical truths. You will want to read this story from cover to cover without putting it down! This description may be from another edition of this product.
