Farther Than I Meant To Go Longer Than I Meant To Stay
By Tiffany L. Warren
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Walk Worthy Press (October 16, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446693537
ISBN-13: 978-0446693530
From the back cover:
She’s independent, successful, and fulfilled in her spiritual walk. But bank president Charmayne Ellis is also overweight, close-to-forty…and wondering if she will ever be as successful in her personal life. She’s never gotten much praise or caring from her ever-critical mother and sister. And her friends are more into matchmaking than being truly supportive. So it seems her prayers are answered when hardworking, saved, and just-too-fine Travis Moon asks Charmayne to marry him. Or are they? Charmayne soon finds the only thing her new husband has to share is one bad-news secret after another. Now, with her reputation and career destroyed and her life at rock bottom, her faith will be tested as never before. Her challenge will be to face her own willful heart—and find the courage to finally put herself in God’s hands and discover where her real blessings lie.
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Charmayne is a successful bank president who’s financially-sound and active in her church. However, her life is just missing one thing…a man! Her thin attractive sister and her best friend are both married and Charmayne wonders if she’s doomed to spend the rest of her days alone. Overweight, she has not had many relationships with men, and she doesn’t see many male prospects on her horizon.
However, when handyman Travis Moon steps into her office to fix her chair, she finds herself swooning over the attractive repairman. He sweeps her off her feet in a whirlwind courtship, and she soon finds herself falling in love with her smooth-talking love interest. As she gets to know Travis, she’s shocked as he reveals one surprise after another, and Charmayne realizes she barely knows anything about the man she’s become involved with. As she loses her job and her sanity, she calls upon God for answers to her seemingly unending plight with Travis Moon.
This book dealt with some serious issues. However, it also had pockets of humor interspersed throughout the story. Sometimes, when your life seems hopeless, and you’ve lost everything, you wonder why God has allowed you to sink to a certain point. This book shows how these sinking points will show us how we need to call upon God as he pushes us into an even higher place. I’d recommend this read to all who enjoy a funny, inspirational, and fantastic story.

~Cecelia Dowdy~