Title: The Christmas ShoesSeries: Christmas Hope #1
Author: Donna VanLiere
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published Date: November 9th 2001
Genre: Christmas, Christian Fiction, Adult, Inspirational
Page Count:132
Format: Hardcover
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Sometimes, the things that can change your life will cross your path in one instant-and then, in a fleeting moment, they're gone. But if you open your eyes, and watch carefully, you will believe....
Robert is a successful attorney who has everything in life-and nothing at all. Focused on professional achievement and material rewards, Robert is on the brink of losing his marriage. He has lost sight of his wife, Kate, their two daughters, and ultimately himself. Eight year old Nathan has a beloved mother, Maggie, whom he is losing to cancer. But Nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life, and struggling to hold onto every moment they have together. A chance meeting on Christmas Eve brings Robert and Nathan together-he is shopping for a family he hardly knows and Nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose. In this one encounter, their lives are forever altered as Robert learns an important lesson: sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference. The Christmas Shoes is a universal story of the deeper meaning of serendipity, a tale of our shared humanity, and of how a power greater than ourselves can shape, and even save, our lives.
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My Review:
“If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...”
I've heard the song, I've watched the movie, and until this years search for Christmas books I had no idea it was a book and had its own series!
In the Christmas Shoes, we follow two families both struggling to stay together, one because of cancer and the other because of being too busy. They've both had interactions with each other because of having lived in the same small town, but they don't really know each other.
The story is basically the same as both the song and movie (it's been a long time since I've seen the movie so please tell me if I'm wrong), the main difference is, of course, we get more details about both families and see what they were like before we saw them this Christmas and how we got to this point in the families lives.
“I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.”
This is a heartbreaking story, but it also really shows a really nice side to Christmas. We get reminded that it doesn't matter how much money you have, etc. What's truly important is spending time with your family and actually being in their lives and truly loving them is what's most important.
I can't wait to read the other books in this series and see what the little boy in this story gets up too next because I think he's going to turn out to be a really good guy from what we've seen so far.
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