These are books I'm currently reading or I have recently finished.
Right now, I'm really hooked on "In the After", and the book I really don't like is Never Never, which really should be NA and not YA.
We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty. It's like George Herbert wrote:
'And here in dust and dirt, O here,
The lilies of God's love appear.'
We think magnificence is in short supply, that dust and dirt choke out the lilies. But that's not true and never was. Lilies may root in dirt, but they reach for heaven—and in the reaching, reveal their magnificence.
― Philip Gulley, Home to Harmony