By Cathy LaGrow. A true and amazing story of a woman, who when she was a young girl of 16, was raped by a stranger. The young woman was Minka DeYoung and it was the 1920's. Surely a different time for a young woman to find herself violated and then pregnant. But this story is not all horrifying as this one act surely was, because Minka was a woman of prayer and filled with an enormously huge love for the child she bore. Minka gave her baby, a beautiful girl, up for adoption and went back to her life as normal... but it wasn't normal. It wasn't the same anymore. The daughter was always on the mother's mind, was always a missing piece to happiness.
A story of an amazing woman and the power of prayer and a story of beauty for ashes because seventy seven years later, mother and daughter are reunited and God had a plan all along. This story will make you cry and it will make you rejoice. It is indeed a testimony to a loving God, who is involved intricately in our lives. This is the Faith-Inspired Book Club pick for June 2015 at the Delphi Public Library.
