Since moving to Utah two years ago, I have joined two book clubs. I absolutely love them! The first one I joined, I loved because it was girl's night out. Occasionally I really enjoyed it because of the book. The one I'm in right now I love for both reasons. I have been touched by the books I read, enlighten by the conversations we have and fallen in love with the woman.

The book we are reading right now is Tess of the D'Urbervilles It is the hardest book I have read for a book club. Normally I would quit, but I keep going because my friend named her first born Tessa after it. I wanted to know why, so I kept reading. And behind the really confusing language is an amazing woman and a timeless lesson.

That is what this blog is really about. A timeless lesson.

Her husband is judging her for past deeds, that is all you really need to know for my favorite quote. Ready, here it comes, drum roll please....

"In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire."

And I just want to testify that is true. Do not discount the defective, whatever that may be. Homeless, alcoholic, whatever. Small thing, big thing, past, present. The Lord can and has worked miracles in people from day one. He can and He will do it again.  We don't know what is in another's heart. And we don't know what the Lord can and will do in another's heart. So remember, "the defective can be more that the entire."