 Seasons of Grace Series, Vols 1-3 By Beverly Lewis |
Beverly Lewis is one of my favorite authors of Christian Amish fiction. Mrs. Lewis is a masterful storyteller and is wonderful at weaving tales of romance with mystery. I have learned to wait until all her books in a series are out before starting on them, because it’s hard to wait to find out what happens next.:)
I just finished reading Beverly Lewis’s trilogy, Seasons of Grace. The books are entitled The Secret, The Missing, and The Telling. It was refreshing that these books were not focused on a couple who had almost insurmountable odds stacked against their romance. (I always wonder why somebody doesn’t speak up or do something.:)) It was also good that the books were not about an Amish person practicing something that the church was upset about, like having a musical instrument or being an artist. (I’ve gotten a little tired of those types of stories.) This series was about an Amish woman, Lettie Byler, who, as a teen girl, was forced to give up her baby for adoption, and how she deeply longed for her child. She grieved for her baby every day and was tormented with the enormity of her secret. The story is about Lettie and her husband renewing their marriage, from something nearly dead to something beautiful. It is about a young woman fighting for her life and finding her birth mother, sister, and family. It is a lovely story of forgiveness and love.
I highly recommend Seasons of Grace. Here is a beautiful quote that I wanted to remember. Lettie’s daughter Grace is talking to her brother Adam about their parents. “Appears to me like they’re fallin’ for each other–’least deeper than they ever were before . . . Maybe they’re tending to what they have, instead of wishin’ for what they don’t” (The Telling, emphasis added). I want to remember to tend and be thankful for everything in my life, rather than wishing for things God has not given me.
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