Book Rec: The Peacegiver

One of the books I am reading right now is "The Peacegiver". I haven't finished the book yet, but I would already recommend it to anyone. It is wonderful! The author, James Ferrell, teaches all about forgiveness, sacrifice, and the Atonement of Christ by relating a story of a man struggling through his marriage. This man's grandfather comes to him in a dream one night and takes him to the scene of several different scripture stories. Ferrell has an incredible talent for teaching simply, but with such depth. I just had to share Ferrell's insightful parallel between the Fall and the Atonement.

"After the Fall, the Lord said to Adam, 'As thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed,' signifying the parallel relationship of the Fall and the Atonement. And so it is no accident that the Atonement will begin, as did the Fall, in a Garden. And it is no accident as well that the individuals in those gardens were each sinless, or that the events in those gardens centered on their exercise of agency--for Adam, whether he would partake of the bitter fruit, and for the Savior, whether he would partake of the bitter cup. The Savior and Adam faced a similar choice: If they did not partake, they would become lone men in paradise. Both partook that man might be. And by partaking of that bitterness, Adam came to know good and evil, and the Savior came to know all of the good and evil that had and would transpire in the hearts of men through all generations of time."