Love's Refining Fire

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>The love story of Sheila Dunbar US Embassy office manager and Diego Santos</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>a physician unfolds in mid-1980's Bogotá Colombia. The era and the nation are</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>shaken by terrorism fomented by drug trafficking on an epidemic scale. In turn a US-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>Colombian extradition treaty aims to combat and destroy that illicit trade.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>In Love Under Fire the predecessor of this book the reader was given glimpses of</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>embassy operations and the profiles of various characters both inside and outside</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>the US diplomatic community. Love's Refining Fire retains much of those elements</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>but expands on them and adds more detail so that the reader gets a broader view</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of the circumstances surrounding the story. It also explores more deeply the essence</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>of the theme: true love overcoming obstacles. Challenges abound and changes are</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>inevitable but through them all God is faithful. Trusting in Him and each other the</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>two main characters Sheila and Diego are sustained not merely for a season but for</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>a lifetime of seasons.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>May those of us who have chosen to walk the narrow path of faith be encouraged by</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(6 8 31 0.88)>their story.</span></p>