Review- A Fragile
Hope by Cynthia Ruchti
A Fragile Hope is a story of a
married couple in crisis. While the underlying crisis is within their marriage,
it becomes much more in the midst of a medical crisis. It is also complicated by the fact that the
husband is a relationship expert and doesn’t even realize his own relationship
is in crisis. He only realizes it when he gets the call that his wife is in the
hospital from a car accident after trying to leave him. As he tries to unravel where she was going, with
whom, and why, he is deeply hurt and confused. The answers lie with his wife
who cannot tell him anything. He must wrestle with the pain of his confusion
and hurt, but more so with himself. How can he not have a good marriage?
How could his wife have been leaving him? Aren’t the solutions he provides for
everyone else truth for their own marriage, too? He must also face that his
wife may not live and how he is going to stand with her through her long
hospitalization. What will be his priorities now? He faces some tough questions
about himself, his wife and his future. How will he find the answers?
The characters have real hurts,
dilemmas, and pain. We feel it with them. We struggle with them through their
crisis. It becomes very real to the reader.
While the crisis feels real, and
oftentimes heavy, there are lessons learned. Past hurts become obstacles to
surviving this crisis, but hope comes in many different unexpected ways. Hope
becomes the strength that makes survival possible. Faith gives hope its root to grow. We are not
left in the crisis, but see forgiveness, faith, and hope transcend it to bring
real healing on many levels in many ways.
A Fragile Hope is a story that will
touch your emotions and heart. You will feel with the characters, but your own
life will be challenged and inspired by this story.
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