Indivisible by Travis Thrasher

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Indivisible: A Novelization

One Marriage, One Family Under God

This book is the novelization of a movie and is based on true events. Darren and Heather Turner, a couple committed to God and country and each other, but when life throws them a curve ball they are a little unprepared to handle it.

Darren is a Army Chaplain and sent to Iraq for 15 months. Heather holds down the fort at home and gets involved with support groups etc. for army wives, especially the group that provides support after a wife receives news of the death of her husband. All this is done while living on pins and needles, always wondering when the knock will happen at your door that rips your life apart.

So while I'm not a proponent of war, the substance of this book is very, very good. Regardless, we are in a spiritual war where Satan is waiting to trip us up and destroy us and our families. And in this book, he was using the scars and the battle wounds worn internally on Darren to do it. And he nearly succeeds, but not quite. And that is all the spoilers I want to give there except to say that it required vulnerability and trust on Darren's part to work through the internal wounding he had experienced.

One of the amazing things in this book is when Darren's children all of  a sudden run to their bedroom to pray for their dad and that was the time when Darren's convoy was in trouble. What a great God we serve.

"My family and I - we've made a promise to each other to protect ourselves from anything the might try to divide us. We've learned the best way for us to do that is to pout on the Armor of God and to seek to honor Him in all that we do. And we want to invite our brothers and sisters here and abroad to do the same."

One thing I do want to say is that the book is a bit challenging to read in a way. I did have an early copy where there were still corrections to be made, but this didn't seem like something that would be corrected. And that was the way the book went back and forth between present and past tense. One part of the book would say like "Darren sat down and thought about...." and the next part would say "Darren walks over to the young man" etc. While it is fine, I found it just a bit distracting to the overall ease of reading.

However, for the overall theme of the book: redemption, second chances, God's grace, etc. I would recommend it and I will definitely be interested in watching the movie as well. Along with that there is also a nonfiction book called Indivisible:One Marriage Under God by Robert Noland. This is a devotional for couples also based off the movie and the life of Darren and Heather Turner.

This is a Thomas Nelson book that I received through NetGalley and was not required to write a positive review.

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