Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Lessons From The Heart
Author: Dorothy Clark
Publisher: Steeple Hill
ISBN: 0-373-87356-5
Release Date: March 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Inspirational Romance
Year/Setting: Current
Overall rating: 4.9
Sexual content rating: None
Language (profanity) rating: None
Dorothy's E-mail: DorothyJClark
David Carlson is out for the "big" story to set him up in a new career. He is getting tired of the small stories that mean nothing but yet he is savvy enough to recognize that if he blows the small ones out of the water he will get noticed. So, the object becomes which stores to take in order to ensure a quicker movement to the top.
While David might have to work at figuring out the "right" stories, he doesn’t have to work at his life. He knows he doesn’t want to get connected to anyone right now nor does he want anything to do with God. After God hasn’t done much to help him throughout his life – if anything God has done the exact opposite to David’s way of thinking.
Or at least he thought so until he met Erin Kelly. Erin has had her share of ups and downs in her life but she knows with every fiber of her being that God has a plan and he is working his plan for Erin’s good. She may not always like the plan or enjoy the plan but she knows the plan is there none-the-less. She is spending her time working with Professor Stiles as his program coordinator for a literacy program. Erin spends her days matching people who have been missed in the school system and don’t have the reading skills needed to function in the "real" world with tutors who want to help. The need for tutors is so strong; however, that Erin does quite a bit of the tutoring herself. After meeting with Professor Stiles and Erin, David is sure his attraction to Erin is the quality of the story being presented with this center and its career implications for him.
It isn’t until David becomes involved in a shooting he discovers the attraction to Erin is so much more. Her calm, peace and surety draw him like a moth to a flame. But that can’t be God, can it?
In the Midwest, we are finally seeing some true winter weather in spite of the fact today is the first day of spring. Dorothy Clark’s book, Lessons from the Heart, reminded me in so many ways of what the Midwest was facing today with the snow. Sometimes we as humans think we have the path totally laid out just as we were thinking spring is here – put away the hats and gloves and start looking toward summer. Then God has a way of sneaking up on us and put a total change in our plans.
David Carlson and Erin Kelly each though they had their lives laid out and were moving towards summer, so to speak. Then God brought something totally new into their lives that moved them in totally different directions. I really enjoyed the story line and how she wove the message of God’s fulfillment into the story. The characters were quite "real" and could be every day man which made them easy to follow and even to join them in the mind’s eye. Lessons from the Heart was truly a reminder to listen to the desires God places in your heart and not to look with the eyes of your logical mind.
Lori
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