Waiting For Morning by Karen Kingsbury.Hannah loses her husband and one daughter as they were hit by a drunk driver flying through the light and hit them so hard two immediately died on the spot.Hannah has a daughter that did live through the accident but Hannah can’t be there for her as she believes life will never be right until she makes sure that the person who got behind the wheel driving drunk is put into jail without parole. That isn’t going to happen but she is working with the group MADD and spending all of her time hating that person who took her family away from her. Hannah who had been so involved with her church life and friends there, she no longer has any time for her old friends she has shut God out of her life. She is sure he wasn’t there doing her job and he let Brian Wesley take her family away. Her daughter during this time, feels as if the wrong daughter died. She wishes she herself would have died and not her sister, things would be good at home had the right daughter lived. She feels as if her Mom doesn’t even see her any more. She is considering suicide.I was pulled into this book and was really engrossed in reading and finding out how things were going to go, what was going to happen next. It was a good book and I did enjoy reading it and took a few things away from the book that I was thinking about after finishing it.I did receive this book through “Blogging For Books” in exchange for an honest review.ABOUT WAITING FOR MORNING“I’m afraid there’s been a car accident…”As Hannah Ryan waits for her family to return home from a camping trip, she realizes she has everything going for her—a husband other women admire, two charming teenage daughters, and a loving Christian home. As the sunny afternoon turns into twilight, her uneasiness grows along with the shadows. Then a car pulls into Hannah’s driveway, bringing two police officers…and devastating news that shatters her life forever.In the days that follow, Hannah struggles with unspeakable feelings of sorrow and rage—feelings that fuse into one chilling purpose for living: revenge against Brian Wesley, the drunk driver who has caused all her pain.In her fury, Hannah shuts the Lord out of her life. She’s determined not to forgive Wesley or the God who allowed this tragedy to happen. Can two caring people help Hannah rediscover her faith…before bitterness destroys her?ABOUT THE AUTHORKAREN KINGSBURY is a USA Today and New York Times best-selling author, with nearly twenty million books in print. Dubbed the “Queen of Christian Fiction” by Time magazine, Karen has written more than forty Life-Changing Drama, which encompasses the Redemption, Firstborn, and Sunrise series, as well as stand-alone novels such as Like Dandelion Dust, When Joy Came to Stay, and This Side of Heaven. Karen and her husband, Don, live in the Pacific Northwest and are parents to six children, including three adopted from Haiti. Visit her Web site at www.KarenKingsbury.com
A mother waits for her family’s return from a trip. A young man loses his job and his hope for the future. Then cars and lives are turned upside-down, tangled and destroyed in Karen Kingsbury’s Waiting for Morning. Survivor’s guilt looms large. Unforgivable sins meets a strong woman’s fury. And the kindly-meant prayers of strangers and friends really don’t seem to change the world. Not at the point where anger meets God’s betrayal.We often ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people. Like this novel’s protagonist, we might know God is faithful when we go to church. Then we fool ourselves he’ll answer every prayer the way we choose. But what if he doesn’t? What happens when the trouble we face is more than our hearts can hold? How will we act when the lawcourt is the only place offering answers?Relationships are beautifully, heart-breakingly portrayed in this novel. Memories fly unanchored from everyday clutter, from photographs, from the space of an empty bed. Mothers against drunk drivers offers an answer, but losing herself in search of purpose is only a temporary gift; it doesn’t help Hannah’s surviving child, and ultimately it isn't helping Hannah. Depression looms but she’s too busy to see it and too angry to listen to advice.Breathing the truth that God doesn’t desert us, even when we desert him, this novel is filled with honest emotion and seeded with faith that grows through life’s broken cracks. Not a simple Christian tale, not an angry MADD novel either, Waiting for Morning presents an evocative picture of real people facing real trials and coming through to real hope. Unbelievers might call the answers to prayer coincidence. Believers, even reluctant believers like Hannah, might come to know more. And in the end, God’s faithfulness gives the only true verdict.Disclosure: I received a free copy from the publishers in exchange for my honest review.
What do You think about Waiting For Morning (2002)?
I’ve herd about Karen for many years, but never had a chance to buy one of her books. And now the time came, a fresh copy of Waiting for Morning was settled on my reading table… I read it for couple of days…No kidding, 440 pages, but it worth reading. I cried in couple of scenes, wishing for the main characters to get everything right… A touching story of a heartbreak by the accident and a sudden death, which results in uncontainable grief and distance from God, yet it’s the story of hope, and how God brings peace even in the events we have no understanding and have no control of… God is light, even when the darkness tries to consume us.
—Vik Arch
bad things happen to good people. People who have a faith in God still struggle when faced with adversity. this story is no different. Hannah had it all a loving husband and two healthy happy daughters. that all changed when her family was his by a drunk driver and her husband and daughter died, leaving her grieving and angry. She neglected her remaining daughter and put all her efforts into getting revenge on Brian Wesley. Even after she got the conviction of first degree murder a first for cal
—Kathryn
Level One:How are Tom and Allicia killed? By a drunk driver that runs a red light.What is the officers name that handles the scene of the accident? Sergeant John MillerHow does Jenny try to committ suicide? By taking a dozen pillsLevel Two:Why does Jenny feel like her mother does not care about her as much as she cares about Allicia? Because Hannah, Jenny's mother, constantly goes on and on about how she "lost her precious first born." Also, after Allicia dies, Hannah is consumed by her loss and pays Jenny no attention and gives an "I don't care about you" attitude towards Jenny.Why Does Matt keep praying for Hannah even after she said that she no longer believed in God and didn't want Matt's prayers? Matt knew that deep down Hannah believed in God;however,because of the tragedy she had just faced, her faith in God was shaken and the only way she would recover is by prayer. He knew that eventually if he kept praying she would turn back to God.Level Three:Why do people automatically blame God when tragedy happens?People have a very misconceived idea about God. Often times they see him as a God that sits on his throne and plays with the lives of human beings.People often think that God's perfect will is always done and that, at times, his perfect will is to exacerbate even the worse of their situations. They don't understand why a loving God would inflict such pain.The truth of the matter is that that is not what God does.God never wanted pain and sorrow to happen to his children;however, due to the sin that's in the world bad things happen even to good christian people.
—Jill
