We may feel guilty, we can be in denial, but the more we spend time with Him, the more we realize how wrong we were about Him. We may not even want the world to see that we’re associated with Him for fear that our friends would avoid us.īut then these moments come when God is finally able to spend some time with us. I think this is very similar to the way many of us fall in love with God.Īt first, we may ignore Him or even consider His presence weird. In the end, while you were looking for love, were you not actually running away from it? Falling in love is finally letting love find you. You don’t fall in love at once, you fall slowly and then finally, and in that final moment, you realize how it’s always been there for you. It’s that wonderful quality about love that kind of grows on you until it takes root within you, allowing you to fall ever deeper until you could no longer ignore it or turn away from it. What’s wonderful about the book is that it takes us with Landon and Jamie as they spend these seemingly ordinary moments that slowly yet effectively give the two the opportunity to realize their love for one another. It’s not as though there was that one life-changing and grand moment when Landon instantly fell in love with Jamie.

Isn’t love like that? One minute you’re blind and the next moment, it’s as though a whole new world has been opened before your very eyes and you could no longer take your heart away. In seeing this person, he comes full circle from being blind to being able to see everything that’s beautiful about this special girl. I love how the book is able to follow Landon’s change of heart as regards Jamie.įrom being a distant and strange outcast his classmates take no notice of, Landon is able to know the person that Jamie truly is. The reader sees what he sees, and I think this works most especially in the way he sees Jamie. Told through the point of view of Landon, the book allows the reader to see things from his perspective.

Watching the film and reading the book provides people an experience that helps them gain a deeper and richer grasp of the story. In fact, I think the book and the movie complement each other. Set in 1958, the story about Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan takes on a different period but not a contradicting theme. Would I really cry? These were just some of the questions I had when I decided to purchase the classic romantic novel. It wasn’t until I found a social media post asking about books that made readers cry that I regained interest in reading it. Image by dekorationwsm from Pixabay A Book Review: Timeless Christian Lessons From the Classic Romance Novel by Nicholas Sparksįor years, I was content that I have watched the film based on Nicholas Sparks’s novel “A Walk to Remember”.

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