Clouds — A Glimpse at God’s Perfect Love

Clouds signify many different things to different people. Some folks may consider them a nuisance to a day of catching some sunshine on a sandy beach. Others may view them as beautiful mountains of hope. Still others might look up at an overcast sky and see a comforting blanket that reminds them of marshmallows bobbing up and down in their mom’s homemade hot cocoa.

In Clouds, flight attendant Shelly Graham thinks “no human could mar their perfection.” (page 50) They offer her a subtle reminder of God’s perfect love as her life crumbles into an enormous pile of tattered dreams. Her dream job is threatened by airline cutbacks. Her little sister gets to live in Shelly’s dream cabin. When she bumps into her childhood best friend and true love, reality splashes ice cold water on her dream future: Jonathan’s engaged to be married! Just as the clouds in the sky adapt to God’s weather plans, can Shelly adapt to the crushing news pouring all around her? Will a journey into her family’s history spark an inner expedition to a Love stronger and steadier than the one she lost?

Clouds by Robin Jones Gunn (www.RobinGunn.com) offers an innocence that is so often lost in today’s modern world. Even though this fifth installment in The Glenbrooke Series is a contemporary tale, it still manages to take us back to a slower paced, more meaningful time when families were close-knit and pleasantly, if somewhat irritatingly, meddlesome and everyone hopes for a happily-ever-after. This is by far the sweetest, most heartfelt story I’ve read all year, and I look forward to reading more of The Glenbrooke Series by Robin Jones Gunn. This novel provides a fresh perspective on God’s way of working things out according to His divine plan.