cover image The Wonder of His Love: A Journey Into the Heart of God

The Wonder of His Love: A Journey Into the Heart of God

Nancy Stafford. Multnomah Publishers, $12.99 (207pp) ISBN 978-1-59052-325-4

""What difference would it make in your life if you spent the next month or so thinking about the love of God?"" asks Stafford, host of a television beauty show and former star of such programs as""Matlock"" and""St. Elsewhere."" In 31 daily meditations, Stafford calls upon the beauty of nature as well as the sacrifice of Christ to persuade readers of God's inexhaustible love for them. Drawing upon various writers, but especially Inklings such as C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton and Charles Williams, Stafford makes her way through the glory and the transformative power of God's love. Her writing style is dramatic and showy, yet conversational. Readers will appreciate her patient meditation on Christian freedom, and her perceptive understanding of the gap that exists between knowing one's sins are forgiven and being able to feel forgiven.