A Chance At Forever


"You shouldn't let the voices of your past or present define who you are. Let God do that. And He says you're precious. So think of yourself that way, Mercy."

The amount of forgivness in this book is amazing! "A Chance at Forever" is about a young woman ironically named, Mercy and a young man named Aaron. During Mercy's childhood Aaron used to be her biggest tormentor, but he is now claiming to be a changed man and wants to establish himself back into the local community, after moving away, to make up for all the wrongs he had done in the past. Mercy can not seem to look past the man Aaron used to be and she still struggles with the pain he brought upon her as a child. Will Mercy be able to forgive her past tormentor? Will she even grow to love him after all he has done? Their are multiple side stories throughout the book and they all revolve around forgivness and past hurts.

 "A Chance at Forever" really brings to light an issue that everyone struggles with at some point, learning to forgive someone after they have hurt you in a deep way. Mercy struggles with that theme throughout the book, but Aaron also stuggles with his pain from the past that made him lash out in anger when he was younger.

This was such an amazing book, and I was truly sad to see it end. This book just goes to show that, no, forgivness sometimes doesn't come overnight, but if we give up all our pain and problems to God, He will help us. We are never alone in our forgiveness. He will take that burden off our shoulders and give us the freedom to forgive.

*I received this book for free from Bethany House Publishing, but my opinion is all my own.

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