Forgiveness and hope are woven throughout Hosea’s heart.

The sea prayers has a strong Christian worldview with particular attention to forgiveness of others and of self.

Jan Karon’s fiction is wonderfully written. This book, as her other Mitford Novels, is organized into short vignettes or scenarios about a wide variety of characters, from the main ones of Father Tim, his wife Cynthia, son Dooley, his wife Lacey and their son Jack to a host of others, in some books taking on minor roles, in some major ones.