Review: Healing Hearts

Healing Hearts: A Collection Of Amish Romances by Beth Wiseman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Amish fiction as only Beth Wiseman can write. Deeply thought provoking, fun and a pure joy to read always. Healing Hearts is a 3 part book. Each a different story that has been released all together, for one large reading pleasure.

In the first book, A Choice to Forgive, Lydia married and lived with Elam for 15 years. Lydia was engaged to Elam's brother, Daniel, but on Christmas Eve many years before he backed out. Elam is gone, and Daniel suddenly comes back.

Daniel is baptized back into the faith, and everyone but Lydia knows what really happened on that fateful Christmas Eve. Even after Lydia finds out, will she truly be able to forgive Daniel, and maybe Elam?

In the second story, A Change of Heart, Leah is a spirited 18 year old. Leah is very spirited and not like most young ladies of the faith. She can't cook, sew or garden worth a lick. But God has blessed her with another very special gift. The gift of writing. Leah's folks, especially her dad thinks Leah will always live with them if she doesn't put aside this silly writing stuff and concentrate on trying to be a good wife. However, Aaron has his eyes on Leah, and he knows she isn't good at any of that stuff. Will everyone have a change of heart about what is really important?

And finally, we have Healing Hearts. Levina and Naaman have been married for 30 years. The summer before the current one, Naaman says he was going to visit his relatives in Ohio, not coming back for a year. Why? Why did he do this? Read this beautiful story as Levina, their kinner and the community wrestle with this, and forgiveness.

All the stories have a theme. A theme of love, forgiveness and God is bigger than all of us. Beth Wiseman is such a talented writer. I see Leah being Beth quite a bit. Each one of these stories will leave you wanting to apply them to your own life and gobbling up more of Wisemans' books!

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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