The Harvest of Grace
By: Cindy Woodsmall
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (August 9, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400073987
ISBN-13: 978-1400073986
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
Reeling from an unexpected betrayal, can Sylvia find relief from the
echoes of her past…or will they shape her future forever?
Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has just one focus—tending and nurturing the herd on her family’s dairy farm. But when a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move far from home, she decides to concentrate on a new start and pour her energy into reviving another family’s debt-ridden farm.
After months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed’s failing farm and move his parents into an easier lifestyle. Two things stand in his way: the father who stubbornly refuses to recognize that Aaron has changed and the determined new farmhand his parents love like a daughter. Her influence on Aaron’s parents could ruin his plans to escape the burdens of farming and build a new life.
Can Aaron and Sylvia find common ground? Or will their unflinching efforts toward opposite goals blur the bigger picture— a path to forgiveness, glimpses of grace, and the promise of love.
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK
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About the Author
Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times best-selling author whose connection with the Amish community has been featured on ABC Nightline, in The Wall Street Journal, and in other media. She is the author of the Sisters of the Quilt series, The Sound of Sleigh Bells, and a nonfiction work, Plain Wisdom, which was written with her closest Old Order Amish friend. Cindy lives in Georgia with her family. Visit her website at CindyWoodsmall.com
Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has just one focus—tending and nurturing the herd on her family’s dairy farm. But when a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move far from home, she decides to concentrate on a new start and pour her energy into reviving another family’s debt-ridden farm.
After months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed’s failing farm and move his parents into an easier lifestyle. Two things stand in his way: the father who stubbornly refuses to recognize that Aaron has changed and the determined new farmhand his parents love like a daughter. Her influence on Aaron’s parents could ruin his plans to escape the burdens of farming and build a new life.
Can Aaron and Sylvia find common ground? Or will their unflinching efforts toward opposite goals blur the bigger picture— a path to forgiveness, glimpses of grace, and the promise of love.
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MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK
As we continue Ada’s House story, we find Aaron is
struggling with addictions, and struggling at what he really wants to do in
life. In the meantime, Sylvia has her own problems trying to come to terms with
being betrayed, and because of it, she wants to eave and start over in another
community. As we follow their journey, we find that Cindy Woodsmall gives us
another view of the Amish life. We get an insight of their daily lives and a
more intimate side of what goes on in some Amish households.
Cindy Woodsmall is a crafted and very gifted storyteller,
making her one of my very favorite authors. In A Harvest of Grace, she created
characters that are real like, warming their way into our hearts as we fall in
love with them. And even through their struggles, Cindy shows us a loving and
forgiving God that will take us in, and forgive us, no matter what.
Some of the issues dealt with in this book are a little more
harsh than most Amish books, but writing these scenes into the story gives us a
better view of just how much God really loves us. That He loves us even through
the most difficult times, and through the deepest sins we commit. I appreciate
Cindy dealing with issues such as she did in this book.
Purchase a copy of this book HERE
About the Author
Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times best-selling author whose connection with the Amish community has been featured on ABC Nightline, in The Wall Street Journal, and in other media. She is the author of the Sisters of the Quilt series, The Sound of Sleigh Bells, and a nonfiction work, Plain Wisdom, which was written with her closest Old Order Amish friend. Cindy lives in Georgia with her family. Visit her website at CindyWoodsmall.com
