Forever With You

Forever With You, Robin Jones Gunn's newest book and the first in the Christy and Todd Married Years series,  released this week. Reading it was like meeting up with old friends. It was wonderful to reconnect with so many familiar forever friends characters. For those who haven't read the older books in awhile, Robin artfully melded in flashback scenes to remind you of familiar stories. And for those of us who recently read and reread and reread again all the Forever Friends books while we anxiously waited for news about what is going on in their lives, we are not disappointed.

In this book, we follow Christy and Todd through a difficult and dark cloud of an unknown future while trusting that God has them in his hand and is forever with them. Through it all they remain faithful witnesses of God's promises, while still struggling as all humans do while faced with uncertainties and scary times. I enjoyed seeing Todd's familiar weaving of analogies and wonderful insights from his time digging in the Word. As I often am, when reading Robin's books, I was reminded of the beautiful word pictures of Rich Mullins.

Christy is so easy to relate to as she rides the  rollercoaster of dips and turns that life brings us. She remains a steadfast supporter and partner in marriage while navigating happiness, faith and trust, fear, anger, and forgiveness. There is definitely signs of growth and maturity in both Todd and Christy as they are learning to navigate marriage, family and life.

To be sure, though they are dealing with some hard stuff, it is not a downer of a book. It was fun and a joy to read. When your faith and trust is in the God who holds it all in His hands, you learn to find the joy and the sun shining through the darkness and find that God uses all things to work together for his good and that is definitely the case in this book. Todd and Christy definitely are examples of riding the waves with their heads up and making the most of the life that God has graciously given them.

I noted comments from readers and Robin on what brought joyful tears to their eyes. For me, it was the moment that Aunt Marti took marker in hand. And you will have to read the book to find out what that means. ;-)

I laughed, I smiled, I cried, I anticipated and now I anxiously await the next installment!

Click HERE for a sneak peak of chapter 1.

Order the book at Robin's Shop or your favorite book distributor. It is also available on many ereader formats. I have to admit, that I didn't have the patience for my hard copy to show up and ordered it on my ereader!