The Bridesmaid is about a young Amish woman named Joanna, who is 25 years old and still not married. She is from Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania. She has a secret passion for writing short stories. As the name of the book suggests she has been asked to be a bridesmaid a couple of times, and her sister cautions her "three times a bridesmaid, never a bride."
While visiting Virginia Beach for a funeral, she meets a Amish young man named Eben Troyer from Shipshewana, Indiana. They get along so well that before they leave they get each others address and start to write back and forth. Of course the relationship evolves to phone calls every other Friday. The only problem is Eben's younger brother has left the family farm to try out the world. In Amish families the family farm is left to the youngest son. This means Eben's father is depending on Eben to take over the family farm. Will Joanna be willing to move to Indiana if Leroy doesn't return to the family farm? Would her bishop grant her permission to join a different church district?
Eben's and Joanna's relationship causes tension and jealousy between Joanna and her younger sister Cora Jane. What will Cora Jane do to cause Joanna to get in trouble with Preacher Yoder? You will have to read the story and find out.
I enjoyed the story very much, as I always do with a Beverly Lewis book. I love the whole concept of the Amish world. The close knit family and a community working for the greater good of all. Being self-sufficient and having your whole life and all your decisions revolving around your belief and faith in God.
This was a second book in the series Home & Hickory Hollow, but I did not feel at all like I missed anything by not reading the first book.
I received this book from Bethany House Publishers as a free book to read and review.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Song of My Heart
Song of My Heart by Kim Vogel Sawyer
This is the latest novel by Kim Vogel Sawyer. The story takes place in Kansas 1895. It is about a girl whose step father is sick and cannot work to support the family. Sadie as the oldest child feels obligated to provide for the family. Her cousin has found her a job working as a bookkeeper in a merchantile and singing in an opera house, a life long dream of Sadie's. The only problem is it is in Kansas, far from her family in Indiana.
The other main character (of course a man) is also new to Goldtree, Kansas. Thad McKane is there to act as sheriff to investigate some possible bootleggers. He was hired by the mayor, who doesn't want anyone to know there is possible trouble, because he wants to grow the town. He accepted the job to earn money to go to school to become a preacher, to show those from his home town that he isn't like his alcoholic, abusive father.
The two are immediately attracted to each other. I was happy that the story did not have them together in two weeks and married in two months. It was a good story, I enjoyed reading it, and enjoyed the characters. It did have some unexpected twists and I like not being able to predict the story from start to finish. That being said, I did not get all absorbed the the story or find myself putting myself in the heroines shoes. So I give it a 3 out of 5 stars.
This is the latest novel by Kim Vogel Sawyer. The story takes place in Kansas 1895. It is about a girl whose step father is sick and cannot work to support the family. Sadie as the oldest child feels obligated to provide for the family. Her cousin has found her a job working as a bookkeeper in a merchantile and singing in an opera house, a life long dream of Sadie's. The only problem is it is in Kansas, far from her family in Indiana.
The other main character (of course a man) is also new to Goldtree, Kansas. Thad McKane is there to act as sheriff to investigate some possible bootleggers. He was hired by the mayor, who doesn't want anyone to know there is possible trouble, because he wants to grow the town. He accepted the job to earn money to go to school to become a preacher, to show those from his home town that he isn't like his alcoholic, abusive father.
The two are immediately attracted to each other. I was happy that the story did not have them together in two weeks and married in two months. It was a good story, I enjoyed reading it, and enjoyed the characters. It did have some unexpected twists and I like not being able to predict the story from start to finish. That being said, I did not get all absorbed the the story or find myself putting myself in the heroines shoes. So I give it a 3 out of 5 stars.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Would you be willing?
Would you as a Christian be willing to serve God & preach the gospel if it meant being sent into a prison (dungeon of death)?
Imagine the small room filled with 25-30 people & no ventilation or sanitation? The smell is so bad new comers often pass out within 30 min.. It is crawling with lice and cockroaches, rats and mice that gnaw on your fingers and toes in the night. No heat in winter or a/c in the summer. You would be allowed 1 cup of rice a day that you would have to cook yourself, over a fire in the middle of the room that was constantly filled with smoke. The inadequate diet cause many to be seriously ill, so vomit would be added to the smell.
This is what many Christian do suffer in the other 2/3's of the world to proclaim God to those who don't know Him. There are 40,000 people dieing a day in India without hearing the gospel even once. Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ wept & died?
One such man was willing and after a year of suffering this he was put in a small room that had been used to store the dead until their families came to get them. The jailer thought he would die within days in the damp darkness. He was chained on his hands and feet that cut into him down to the bone. He could not stretch out or cook his own food, so other prisoners sent him food under the door. He stayed here for 3 months without another soul with whom to talk. But God in His mercy allowed him to see the New Testament when he closed his eyes. It sustained him and allowed him to endure this terrible torment.
Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ died?...
This is a paraphrase out of the book REVOLUTION in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan
Imagine the small room filled with 25-30 people & no ventilation or sanitation? The smell is so bad new comers often pass out within 30 min.. It is crawling with lice and cockroaches, rats and mice that gnaw on your fingers and toes in the night. No heat in winter or a/c in the summer. You would be allowed 1 cup of rice a day that you would have to cook yourself, over a fire in the middle of the room that was constantly filled with smoke. The inadequate diet cause many to be seriously ill, so vomit would be added to the smell.
This is what many Christian do suffer in the other 2/3's of the world to proclaim God to those who don't know Him. There are 40,000 people dieing a day in India without hearing the gospel even once. Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ wept & died?
One such man was willing and after a year of suffering this he was put in a small room that had been used to store the dead until their families came to get them. The jailer thought he would die within days in the damp darkness. He was chained on his hands and feet that cut into him down to the bone. He could not stretch out or cook his own food, so other prisoners sent him food under the door. He stayed here for 3 months without another soul with whom to talk. But God in His mercy allowed him to see the New Testament when he closed his eyes. It sustained him and allowed him to endure this terrible torment.
Would you be willing to suffer this for those whom Christ died?...
This is a paraphrase out of the book REVOLUTION in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan
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