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Your Sins and Mine

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YOUR SINS AND MINE by Taylor Caldwell is a Y2K in a nutshell. It is a small, but powerful book that causes you to examine your spiritual life. Not exactly biblical in content, but along those lines. This book is a little bit more generous than the bible in that humanity is given a second chance. This book cannot be put down once you open it. It is a novel about a farmer and his family and what happens to the earth once God has had enough of our brutality and hatred of one another. Written almost a half decade ago, it is very prophetic and timely. Excellent. Must read.

I have read several other of Taylor Caldwell books and I happen to think she is a brilliant author. This particular book was about a farming community that experienced a severe drought and a growth of fowl smelling weeds that choked off any possibility of productive crops. As the story moves along this community finds out that it is not just they who are suffering from this tremendous overgrowth that had poisonous pricks and attracted a poisonous scorpion type creature whose bite is deadly. It is a more religious book than I care for and makes God seem like a picky being who requires the correct verbiage in daily prayers for them to be answered. It is also slightly depressing, but it is inspiring in a religious sense if that is what a person like in books. Personally I feel God to be more loving and less specific on the way a person prays, but it is inspiring. I do like the way Caldwell writes about the government and how it can be manipulative or deceiving in certain situations. It was a book that was difficult to put down. I had to know how it ended. I think Caldwell is a genius the way she hooks the reader into the story. Other than the belief system being different than mine, it was very good book. I think Caldwell was a woman well ahead of her time in all of her stories and I enjoy the way she writes.

I read "YOUR SINS AND MINE" in the 50's. I was in my 20's at the time, but I was deeply impressed. This book should be in the hands of all World Leaders and in every school as a MUST READ. The second chance the world got in the book I dare say wont be available in the real world. Alas, but the hate goes on... .

I have read this book on numerous occasions, and the more I read it, the more I place it at the top of my all time favorites! This book should be on the mandatory reading list for all students!

What this book calls us to is personal humility and a reliance on God as the Creator and Sustainer of our world. It calls us to a personal acknowledgement of who He is and our need for Him.

I would highly recommend this book as a yearly reminder of Who is really in control!

I remembered this book that I read about 20 or so years ago when I read in the news today about the genetically engineered produce that is now on the market. The "Frankenfood" we grow today that resists herbicides and pesticides also produces pollen that can cross pollinate - WEEDS. What will this earth do with super weeds that can choke our land?

This book, Yours Sins and Mine, outlines a future that can happen when man decides he is a god and disregards the infinite wisdom of what has already been created.

The bible recounts the story of man getting tossed from the Garden of Eden for thinking we were the equals of God - where to we go when we screw up this world?

Well, as a observer of human nature, Taylor Caldwell's views are pretty much valid through-out the ages. Hate and self worship will destroy this world much faster and more thouroughly that God's armageddon(sic) is supposed to do.

Even a non religous person must see that the event of this day are heading towards Ms. Caldwells view of the future at a hurtling rate.

I read this book 45 years ago. I have shared it with friends and pastors. It really makes you think about life and where you are going with faith. I think the most important page was 200. Read it and think of where we are today.

I was very pleased with the condition with the book, seeing how it was written in the 1950's. I also had quick service.