Orson Scott Card

I have found that the longer I am married the more my interests merge with my husbands.  In asking him how I have influenced his life he did not have much to say leaving me with the idea that he has passed on more of his likes to me then the other way around.  All that is beside the point since I enjoy all the new experiences that I have had with him in my life.  With that said, it was through my husband that the Ender Series was brought into my life and I have loved every minute of those books, though I have yet to finish all of them.  My hubby was looking at other books by Orson Scott Card and found the series that was done on the women of Genesis.  The first one is 'Sarah' and chronicles the life of Sarai and Abram as they go through Egypt and transition into the names that God gave them and have their son Isaac.  It followed the biblical layout of the story pretty closely and made me look at parts of the story in a new light.  Card interprets the travel into Egypt, portraying that God lead Abram to say that Sarai was his sister showing Abram's trust in God and close communion with him.  I had always viewed Abram as one who was rather weak, not owning up to the fact that Sarai was his wife and then letting Sarai manipulating him into having a child through Hagar.  Card put him into a new light of one who closely followed God's call on his life and trusted God with his legacy even as he continued to age with no children.
The book helped me to see more clearly that even though our circumstances may scream that God does not care or is not in control, we have to trust in his promises, rest in them and be at peace that he will work it out in his timing.
I am looking forward to reading more in this series and encourage any one to pick it up and try it out.  I am in no way saying that all his puts in this book is truth but it did encourage me to look at the story in the Bible with new eyes.