Since most of us can follow the Christian aspects behind this story, it moves right along, especially as Annette as author and as the mentor in her story cajoles us to have faith, things will turn out the way they're supposed to. (Whether they actually do/did, I'm not sure; that's eventually left up to the reader's imagination.)

I'm not so sure my imagination can deal with the purpose that may be supposed to lie behind story. In fact, even as one who is not particularly Christian, there's a big word that may apply here -especially in the minds of serious believers; here's the dictionary definition because I don't really want to use it directly: The crime of stealing or desecrating that which is sacred.

 Generally I like open-ended stories, but my imagination is having a hard time wrapping itself around this one in a satisfying manner.