Amish Grace
Wednesday’s Spotlight: Amish Grace
I would not have picked this book to read; however, my 72-year-old mother saw the movie on tv last week — said she cried through the entire thing. Of course I remember the Nickel Mines tragedy. It occurred before I began writing Amish fiction, but even then I was aware of the Amish presence within our country. I remember the feeling of loss and sadness – the feeling of “THAT place should be safe.”
When I arrived at my mom’s last weekend, she insisted that we look for the book which covered the same incident. So we did. And I think that was probably God’s prodding, because this is a book that I needed to read. It’s more than a re-telling of a terrible tragedy. In fact it is a celebration of God’s grace and forgiveness through a very special people. It’s something that I knew, having studied the Amish for over a year now, but I hadn’t studied it in quite this way.
Amish Grace. It’s a very special book, and I’m grateful to the authors who took the time and effort to put together the re-telling of what happened and how these people responded with God’s grace.
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