Book Review - When I Lay My Isaac Down, by Carol Kent

Surrendering Your Isaac on the Altar

A midnight telephone phone call alerted Carol and Gene Kent that their lone son, Jason Paul, had been arrested for first grade murder. "When I Put My Isaac Down" is the narrative of their despairing response to this lurid news. Carol is clearly and openly communicates the hurting they suffered through this tragedy. Feelings of hurt, shame, guilt, and indefinable horror left them devastated.

A support grouping of "stretcher bearers" surrounded them with prayer, offered words of encouragement words of comfort, and in very existent practical manner helped, Carol, Gene, Jason Paul, and his married woman April work through their sorrow and the sense of bereavement.

Carol's authorship vibrates with hope. She shares her narrative and the narratives of others who have got also been faced with loss and trauma. These narratives vividly portray the message of God's love, redemption, and the manner to rapprochement in modern times of calamity.

The chapters stopping point with inquiries for reflection. Responding in authorship to these exercisings will assist the reader construe the obscureness between the unusual providential fortune allowed by Supreme Being and what we cognize of Him theologically or in theory.

Carol urges on the reader to change the manner we believe about personal trials. Eight powerfulness rules are presented which volition aid the reader through procedure a personal crisis, those fortune that phone call for laying your Isaac, as an offering on the altar.

Carol's compassion, comfort, and lovingness come up through as echt as Carol communicates her personal battle with relinquishing her Isaac. "When I Put My Isaac Down." is a affecting and memorable business relationship of victory in the thick of tragedy.

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake