5:06 PM
miidalab
I had just finished reading another teenage novel. ( Okay, I’m kinda enjoying teenage novel lately. ) Aright, so.. what can I say? Um. Honestly, at first I wasn’t really enjoying reading Stealing Parker. But then on the latter part, and I finally enjoyed this when I reached the part with the “ohh-lala” factor.
So yeah? Stealing Parker is just about a girl who really loves to play softball, until her mother left them and go with a butch, and all started with that thing. How her life was changed with that scenario. How Laura — her so called best friend left and spread all those rumors about her. How the people in their church judged them. How she quitted her softball team. How she hooked up with different guys just to show people that she’s far different from her mother, and just to prove that the rumors about her being a butch wasn’t true.
Then she had a secret affair with the baseball team’s coach – Brian Hoffman. Okay for the record, Brian was six years older than Parker that time. He was twenty-three then Parker was seventeen. Then along the way she fell in love with Will who’s also a part of the baseball team and also her competitor for the title of being the school valedictorian. (FYI, Parker beat Will.. Huh! Girl power.) But unfortunately, she can’t show her feelings toward him because her best friend Drew (who’s also a part of the baseball team) has a feeling for Will also.
To cut the story short, the school found out about the thing between her and Brian. That’s why Brian resigned and never showed to Parker again. Then Drew got mad at her because he thought that Parker hooked up with Will. Then Will got mad also with her because he found out that she was with Brian while having this good time with him. Everything’s so messed up! Then she called her mom. That’s the time she talked to her mom after the scenario of her mom leaving them for Theresa – her mom’s girlfriend. Then slowly, things got better. She joined the softball team again. She apologized to Drew and Will. She started her life again. It all ends during the night of their prom. She and Drew were okay, so with Will. Then they decided to start and to get things back together again.
So, here you go. That will sum up the novel. It’s good right? I mean look. Almost all of us will at least experience a time wherein we’ll feel like we are all alone. There are times where in we don’t know what we really want for our lives. We are pursuing those things that we thought we want and we need, but not seeing that the thing we really need is just there. We don’t have to look too far away. Just like what the pastor said last Sunday – “Selah Regularly… Pause and Pay Attention.” I am so glad that this novel showed the importance of faith with God. Parker is a Christian. She always seeks God. Though, there are times we aren’t really sure about God’s message to us. All we have to do is to “Selah Regularly… Pause and Pay Attention.” To pause, and to pay attention to what God is saying. Not to rush things. Pause. That’s what happened to Parker – to each and every one of us. When we are in a rush, we can’t hear what God’s telling us. We can’t pay attention to him because we are too busy doing other things. If only we know how to pause, to pay attention. Things will be better; we can hear Him loud enough. We’ll understand His message to us. Well, I’m happy that the rough time in Parker’s life is over. I am happy to see and witnessed how God can truly help us with our lives. Praise God! :)
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