‘Woven by Love’ Angel Le Finds Her Voice Through Faith

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Growing up in a small village in Vietnam, Angel Le’s childhood was a stark comparison to the life she found when she fell in love and moved to Australia.

Angel’s younger years were marked by poverty and fighting to find her next meal, then adulthood afforded her the opportunity to write, play piano and in many ways – discover her own voice.

“When I was young my family was very poor”,” Angel told Hope 103.2.

“So poor that even a meal with white rice feel like a feast.

Woven by Love takes us into her migrant experience and how faith helped her process the effects of hardship.

“My family, especially my brother, has crossed a big river in the flood season just to bring home two small fish so that that day we can have something to eat.

“Food is something that we fight [for] every day to survive.”

Angel’s memoir, Woven by Love, takes us into her migrant experience and how faith helped her process the effects of hardship and the darker memories.

“All the memories are worth staying with us,” Angel said.

“Some painful, some happy, but they all teach us something.

“Because God is love, I have decided that I will choose love.”

“When I was a child I believed in a divine power, but it’s very sketchy and my family didn’t know anything about Christ.”

It was Angel’s husband Andrew who first introduced her to Christianity when they met in 2016 – and still jokes about who made the first move.

“Andrew usually says that I am the one who said hello first,” Angel said.

“So when we are happy, he thanks me for saying hello first and when we have problem he blames me for saying hello first.”

The faith Angel found when she met Andrew has become foundational.

“When I was a child I believed in a divine power, but it’s very sketchy and my family didn’t know anything about Christ,” Angel said.

“Now that he introduced Christ to me [I have] a strength to lean on.”

“We can go through bitterness full of love and spread the love to people around us too.”

Thinking back to a childhood where “our voice was unheard, our pain unseen” Angel says her ability to move through it is from God.

“God’s teaching is always about love and forgiveness,” Angel said.

“We can go through bitterness full of love and spread the love to people around us too,” she said.

Angel Le’s memoir Woven by Love is out now.

Feature image: Angel Le