Christa Parrish

Dear Readers,

Ellen is just a young lady when she leaves her Bible in a motel one day as her family leaves.  She insists it is the thing that God wants her to do.  Her parents are not too happy when they find out what she does.  In fact they take money out of her allowance to pay for a new one.  Little do they know who that Bible will impact in years to come.

The Air We Breathe by Christa Parrish is a story of different, very hurting people whose lives intertwine with other hurting people.  It's about how they are able to help each other even though they can barely help themselves.  Hanna is just a little girl when she sees her father gunned down in a bank robbery gone wrong.  Claire causes a car accident that kills all her children.  Neither one is able to heal, until they meet each other.

As a species, humans are connected through our similar experiences.  God made us that way so that we could help others that are going through what we have already experienced.  I have watched this happen in many many ways over the years.  Widows and widowers helping each other through the loss of a beloved spouse, mothers who have lost children reaching out to mothers who have just experienced it also, I could go on and on, but that is how we can understand someone and help them. 

One of the characters talks about a stroke she had, and she was convinced that she suffered her stroke so she could reach out to the woman in the bed next to her at the hospital.  She could reach out in a way that none of us that were not sharing a hospital room with her could have done.  This entire book seems to be a reminder of that.

Happy Reading