Redeeming Love

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And flipside, if these gold-hearted hookers are such an anomoly, how come I never read stories about hookers with hearts of wet garbage, or hearts of heart meat that perform their functions adequately if a bit coldly? First off, one thing I must note about this book, and it’s probably the one small element that held me off from reading it sooner than I did, or reading it at all for that matter. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is about love that won't let go - no matter what. Angel/Sarah and Michael’s love story was beautiful and I was on the edge of my seat through most of this story.

On one of her walks, Michael Hosea sees Angel and hears God tell him that this is the woman he is destined to marry.However, Duke's sexual preference is for young girls, so he asks Angel to manage his prospective "companions," but only after a week's worth of prostitution. Shortly after becominga born-again Christian in 1986, Francine wrote Redeeming Love as her statement of faith.

Mike McCahill of The Guardian gave the film 2/5 stars, saying it "thinly scatters a parable's worth of plot across 134 minutes and resembles HBO's Deadwood recut for Sunday-school purposes: pious, puzzling and punitive, with a sternly wagging finger never far from entering the frame. It is revealed in a flashback that during her time as Duke's mistress, Angel got pregnant twice, and both times an infuriated Duke had a doctor abort it. thus, instead of giving the facts, it presented images and drew out emotions where bare facts would have been much less sensual. If you caught a woman peeping into your house from a position in a high-up tree branch, wouldn't you consider updating your security system to include some sort of lasers or robotic dogs?

Michael and Angel/Sarah were wonderful characters and their love was epic but somewhere around 78 percent the story went pretty preachy for my tastes. By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.

It was more like it showed me how when you really love someone, you’re willing to sacrifice a piece of yourself and forgive your partner’s grievances no matter how much it might hurt sometimes. I think every woman goes through this struggle as we often look to the men in our lives to solve all our problems, including the wealth of emotional baggage we women tend to pick up.Sarah, aka, Angel is a beautiful, damaged woman who remains a prisoner of a past that heartlessly sold her into prostitution as a child. He [God] will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them. He keeps going after her and 'choosing ' to forgive her each time until the penny drops and he realises he has to give her up and let her choose him. He apparently has nothing in his life and is a simple, empty vessel waiting for the right woman to come along and not only make him complete, but be his Wizard of Oz and give him brains and a heart and whatever the hell else those other losers got.

Along the way, she is robbed and forced to prostitute herself to avoid being raped by the mostly male passengers. She feels a deep sense of shame at her "uncleanness:" she is moved by Michael's love but cannot see herself as worthy of it.It is all about redemption, in the end, it is God’s one true love that is Angel’s salvation and redemption. Emotional, spiritual and physical intimacy make for better rounded characters I think and I felt short changed not to get all that. And sure, even though Angel couldn't have children, she ended up having them because I guess God reversed whatever that "doctor" did to her to make sure she never got pregnant again.