#redeeming love book

[angelbyanyothername]

Redeeming Love Art 5/20

From ch 11! This was my favorite bg that I did… despite how much i despise drawing bgs 😝

[tecconte]

redeeming love

Vended into harlotry as a child, Angel knows nothing but treason. Can her heart ever be mended? Grounded upon the novel by Francine Rivers. Grounded on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers, REDEEMING LOVE is a important story of grim love and perseverance as a youthful couple’s relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. It’s a life- changing story of…

[angelbyanyothername]

There needs to be more Michael gifs and icons out there

#no comment

[amazingdeadfish]

DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND MY VISION

I am calling for a Mr and Little Miss LMK au please I am begging/j

Mr Miserable and Mr Cheeky:

[helen-cooper-fan-account]

I believe that people are allowed to like bad movies but every time someone says they like the miss peregrines movie I feel such intense physical pain it’s unreal

[arleo]

I come bearing gifts- rough and unrefined, but gifts nonetheless. Happy Birthday, Gregorian Calender, hope it's a good one for everybody ✌️

[angelbyanyothername]

“She destroyed his dreams, and he made her windchimes.”

—Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

"James Potter was a bully"

Snape was an abuser 💀

At least James fucked with people his own age. He wasn't a 30 year old man bullying 11 year old children. He wasn't a teacher with power over the students he tormented. He had zero power to expel or academically punish anyone. At least the people James messed with had the chance to fuck with him back. During Snape's worst memory, Snape literally casts a spell that cuts James across the cheek. He wasn't some helpless victim.

And before anyone comes for me, I'm NOT saying it's okay to bully people or anything like that. But if you look at a 15 year old boy bullying another 15 year old boy and look at a literal teacher who bullies kids 20 years younger than him and decide that the boy is an irredeemable asshole while the teacher isn't, you're insane.

[inlovewithquotes]

I love you. And it's okay if you don't know what it means to be loved by someone, let alone love someone else because I promise to love you enough for the two of us. To love you every day to make up for everyone else who failed miserably.

-Redeemed

[angelbyanyothername]

Redeeming Love Art

From Chapter 22

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

“because he never accepts that it's never been about righteousness--it's about repentance.” except javert killing himself IS repentance.

well, it’s like 12 different things, because bro had gone days without sleeping and very little food and water and he already had low self-worth and kept asking the amis to kill him and just assumed he was going to die AND THEN valjean upended his understanding of the world and morality. he was really going through it & there are a lot of overlapping reasons for why he jumps into the seine.

but javert is like Number One Most Responsible guy in the whole story. taking responsibility is his Thing (forever bitter the musical doesn’t include the punish me monsieur le maire scene). how else, in his derailment, could he atone for his conceived misdeeds other than by handing in his resignation to god? in the brick he had already left a note urging his superiors to treat convicts at toulon better, which is another step in his repentance (and another crime the musical commits by not including it). jumping into the seine was another step.

honestly a lot of ppl who like the book think the musical was dead wrong to exclude him from the big heaven group sing, because it COMPLETELY undermines the themes of forgiveness and compassion threaded throughout les mis. like the musical was simply wrong lol.

This is helpful context! I am still finishing the brick, although I have fully read the abridged version, and that detail about the letter wasn't included, so I didn't know that occurred! (And thank you for the message--this is a long response but I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!)

I agree that Javert is certainly deeply distraught and remorseful; like you mentioned, his worldview is literally falling apart, and his actions reflect his mental state. But his death isn't really repentance--in the sense that it's not what God would have wanted. To me it reads like a Judas situation: a desperate realization of a huge mistake, and doing the only thing you think can make it right, namely, ending it all. That's the just punishment for someone so wrong, isn't it?

But true repentance, meaning the repentance that the Lord desires, is about changing your ways, not "paying a price." Had Javert really understood the beauty of Valjean's mercy (an image of Christ's, just as the bishop's undeserved mercy was to Valjean himself), rather than killing himself, he would have lived to also become "an honest man"--in heart. One who could forgive and understand forgiveness, for himself as well as others. One who could recognize that he is not The Law, that he can fall, but that he can also be "brought to the light." One who could accept that men like Valjean, and men like himself, CAN change, and be changed.

It's tragic to me because so much of "Stars," and his character in the book as well as the musical, is about wanting to be righteous, to rise above his birth and the sinfulness he associates it with. It's about wanting to please the Lord by his actions. But in his end, he shows he never understood what God really wanted from him, and that's where my original phrase comes in: not righteousness, but repentance. To live, and face the man you were, knowing it's no longer the man you are. That it's never been about what you've done or can do, but about what's been done for you. That's the Gospel that he could never fully accept.

To use another example you mentioned, that misunderstanding drives why he asks the Mayor (Valjean) to punish him--in his worldview, mercy is unjust, or at the very least, unfair. Evil must be punished; "those who fall like Lucifer fell" receive "the sword." But "as it is written," God "desires mercy, not sacrifice" (Matthew 9:13). God would have wanted Javert to live, and Javert couldn't see that, and that's why it's devastating to me. In his misunderstanding of the heart of God, he misses what would have set him free from the chains of sin he's always been trying to escape.

That's why he's contrasted with Valjean, who (though he carries guilt about his past till the end of his life) is eventually able to face it and confess what he had done to those he loves. He knew there was mercy to be found, if only it was asked for. Javert was too blinded by pride and shame to realize it, and so, while broken, he never was able to truly repent.

For that, you must go on.

[angelbyanyothername]

I read the book first and then saw the movie which is what I recommend people to do 🤣🤣 I never thought the book was weird but when u put it like that 🤔 i can see where ur coming from 😂 personally if i had to choose, i liked the book the best because it had more in it (especially with the altmans) But i loved the movie and dont think they couldve done any better! my absolute favorite thing about the movie, was the fishing thing they added! my gosh that last scene just tugs at my heartstrings!! ♥️ 🎣

📚 Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

I thought the movie was intense; I was NOT prepared for the book. There is so much weird stuff going on in this book. I mean, the movie cut out a ton of stuff and it was still somewhat strange. So imagine my surprise when the book is even weirder. I’m a Christian, so I understand where Francine Rivers was coming from. She took the biblical story of Hosea and put it in a different setting. I get that. But it’s just so weird. Something about it doesn’t work the same way. I liked the book, but it was totally strange. I mean, there’s a part in the book (they obviously left this out of the movie) where Angel walks toward Hosea and STRIPS as she walks so that she’s naked when she gets in front of him. I understand the symbolism, so don’t come at me, but that’s weird! Anyway, I can’t iterate all my feelings in one post, so I’ll leave it at that. There’s so much other weirdness that happens, but for now, I’ll just say that if you can just ignore the weird parts, it’s a good story and a pretty easy read.

Rating: 8/10

[artino-c]

modern au queen's thief characters interacting with modern media: what are all their opinions about gone girl

[sadiahakim]

I love this aspect of life—slow, calm, gentle, warm, welcoming, and green.

— Sadia Hakim // writing journal

[radiantmists]

fascinating that there are so many stories for kids that say 'you can save the world' but so few that say 'you can change the world'

[usyrps]

something something rook's rest ironically being the catalyst of aegon's strength and bravery. he's already angry and in pain after b&c, but i think this is the first time he directly faces his own mortality and is forced to acknowledge the grim reality of the situation, that this is war. he takes the kids and leaves with larys in the wake of KL being stormed. they orchestrate the takeover of dragonstone. he goes on dragonback, again, into another battle against a dragonrider even though he was noted to be in chronic pain. injured and distraught, he shows more agency than he had before. goes on to take back KL and begin the restoration. he held court, even if he could not make it to the throne. and of course, none of it matters and he was doomed to fail from the beginning because the dance is a tragedy of a dynasty torn asunder by its own ambitions, and not something that could have been won. but so much of his motivation is rooted in the love he has for his family and wanting to protect them, keep them alive. that, and a copious amount of anger. love and rage.