Reasons for Hope
In the Mosaic of Your Life
Carl Kerby

Genesis Publishing Group
November 22, 2011 / ISBN: 1933591099
Nonfiction/Religion
Amazon

Reviewed by Willie Elliott

Carl Kerby very successfully uses an analogy of a beautiful mosaic and the way God takes the broken pieces of our lives and molds them into something worthy of His approval in Reasons for Hope: In the Mosaic of Your Life.

The first part of the book is all about rocks and mounuments from biblical times and onward, and how they were used as memorials to God and the struggles these charecters endure on their journey to knowing God. But where is the Kerby story?

As the reader begins to read the story of Kerby's broken life, he is reminded of the material in the introduction and the similarities between the two. The reader is confident that God is going to arrange those broken parts for the author and mold him into a child of God.

Many readers may not agree with some of the extra material that the author includes. His complete disavowal of evolution, rather than fitting it in with God's plan, may turn some readers off. The book may have been better if the author ended his book with his own narrative.

Having said this, I must say the introduction with the stones and mosaics plus the story of his life was very informative and enlightening and did well in carrying the message.