Review - What Once Was Lost - Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer

What Once Was Lost
By Kim Vogel Sawyer
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date: September 17, 2013
ASIN: 978-0307731258
Pages: 315

Review:

Kim Vogel Sawyer has been one of my favorite Christian authors for several years now and I was more than eager to review What Once Was Lost, but the book got shoved aside. Luckily, I stumbled upon the book last week and I finally got around to reading it.

Christina Willems has been taking care of the poor at the Brambleville Asylum on a small Kansas farm ever since her father died, but the unthinkable happens when a fire breaks out in the kitchen, leaving the residents homeless. She asks the mission board for help in repairing their home, but until then they'll need somewhere else to live.

She scrambles across the town looking for shelter for them. She talks Levi Jonnson, a mill owner, into taking in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. Levi wasn't exactly thrilled about taking Tommy in at first, but once he got to know the boy, a bond quickly grows.

It seems as if the Lord is challenging Christina as obstacles keeping jumping in front of her at every corner and it seems the Brambleville Asylum will never get repaired, let alone ever reopen. Some of the residents are sleeping in stables, living in boarding houses in exchange for doing chores, and others are staying in decent homes.

Christina's only hope may lie in the hands of Levi, who must confront his past to open his heart to others.

Like I said, I have read several books by the author and What Once Was Lost is completely different, but in a good way. The main character, Christina, is a kindhearted person, who wants to spend her life helping others, but she several life challenges are thrown in her path. Levi has lived a life of a hermit because he has been hurt in the past, but his life changes for the better when Tommy and Christina enter his life. I thought the book was a great read with an interesting plot. I highly recommend it to others.