This is an excellent book.
When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.

When Sierra's husband decides to uproot the family and move because of a job opportunity without consulting her, she is resentful and gives him a hard time. Separately, she finds an old diary of a relative who had to travel the Oregon trail because her husband wanted the free land offered and discovers parallel situations. Do these marriages survive?

One of my favorite Francine Rivers books - it will make you think, it will make you cry, and it will make you rejoice!

Excellent book by a consistent author.

This has been the hardest of all the Francine Rivers books that I have read. Maybe because it's easier to imagine how I would react had I been in Sierras situation. I would have liked to have had more insight into Alex's inner world as the story was told, not just at the ending. But as Francine Rivers always does she has challenged me and reminded me that God will make all things work for good.

This was my first Francine Rivers book and I loved it. I'll be looking for more of her books. Sierra life starts to fall apart when her husband takes a new job with a computer company and moves the family away from their home and family without consulting Sierra first. Her mother sends her off with the journal of Mary Kathryn McMurry, a young pioneer on the Oregon Trail who like Sierra, is on a journey chosen by her husband without considering Mary Kathryn's wish to remain in her childhood home. Throughout the book the two womens lives parallel with trials and tribulations including a distrust of God for letting them get into the possition of dispair each is in. The story is full of humor and realistic life situations and written tastefully. It's like getting two stories in one book that meld together with the Scarlet Thread running through it.

Easy read...good story line

Franice Rivers has done it again. Wonderfully written story.
Sierra Madrid - Woman of today. Bold. Determined. Her life is about to be turned upside down.
Mary Katheryn McMurray - Young Pioneer on the Oregon Trail. She is filled with anger at being uprooted from her home.

Two women, centuries apart, are joined through a tattered journal as they condent with God, husbands -- even themselves -- until they fall into the arms of the One who loves them unconditionally.

It's a great book!

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Rivers has woven the stories of Sierra ane her great-great-great grandmother Mary Kathryn into one riviting novel.

Terrific book... Like reading two books at the same time... Francine Rivers has really how done herself... smile...dg

Love this author.

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