Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World

By: Suzanne Woods Fisher

Capture the Simple Peace of the Amish in Your Own Life

You don’t have to become Amish to make personal peace a reality. Organized around five central themes in Amish life, Amish Peace shows you how you can cultivate a simple life of love, gratitude, and faith in the midst of a very complicated world. It includes real-life stories and examples of Plain People, Amish proverbs, and fascinating facts about Amish communities. Each section also contains questions for reflection and action, outlining things you can do in your own life that “make for peace.”

I have always been facinated by the Amish and the peace that they seem to have. This book was an amazing read full of real life stories and lessons. Each section is broken down into different parts, such as:

Simplicity

Time

Community

Forgiveness

and the Sovereignty of God

After each story there is a small reflections on time where they talk about the story and then give you questions to think about which I really loved because it made me pounder more on the story and how I could make my life more simple and at peace.

They also have a section after the story that is called plain living that compares our world to the plain living world of the Amish.

The whole book is about living simple and how you can do little things to live simplier in your life.

Suzanne makes me feel like I really could live part of the Amish Life.

If you are wanting to relax and unwind and just try to live a little simplier in this complicated world then I would suggest Amish Living.

Revell Books

By: Dan Walsh

A family in need of forgiveness – Ian Collins the man without his son, Patrick Collins the young boy without his father. Patrick’s only three wishes on Christmas – the army to find his father, to leave his grandfather’s home and the dusty wooden soldier residing in his grandfather’s attic that he is forbidden to touch.

The Unfinished Gift is a touching story of reconciliation that will reach into your heart and remind you that the smallest of things can bring about powerful changes.

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By: Bonnie Leon

Looking for adventure, Kate Evans found much more than she was looking for!

Being an independent and adventurous young woman, Kate’s pioneering spirit makes her dream of being an Alaskan Bush pilot. The main problem is… she is the only woman in this male-dominated career. Fly along with Kate as she battles the Alaskan arctic storms and the even-stormier thoughts and expectations of others as she attempts this adventure. Will her fears inhibit her from seeing her dreams come true?

Then, it gets even more interesting, as author Bonnie Leon cleverly weaves in a tale of romance amidst the swirling Alaskan winds. Far from her Washington State home, Kate’s life intersects with that of a man living alone in the wilderness. His mysteriousness and adventurous life-style draws Kate in. Will she ever be able to get through the thick walls he has protecting his heart?

In this first book in the Alaskan Skies Series, there is enough suspense and emotion to excite and entertain you from cover to cover. You will find yourself anxiously awaiting book number two!

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By: Mary Tatem

When planning a new quilt, quilters flip through books and magazines and sort through scraps of fabric, but when God created you he took more time and care than any quilter. Within the pages of her book, Mary Tatem uncovers the joy we have in God and our hope of things yet to come through inspiring stories based on twelve quilt patterns. Stories feature quilt blocks including Pickle Dish, Pine Tree, Bear Claw, Crazy Quilt, School House, Drunkar’s Path, Tumbling Blocks, Le Moyne Star, Love Apple, Mariner’s Compass, Rose of Sharon and Wandering Foot.

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By: Dan Walsh

Shawn Collins has just returned home from fighting in Europe. His desire now is to stay home with son, Patrick and aging father and to grieve the loss of his wife in private. But that is not to be as he is called upon yet once again to serve his country – as a speaker on the war bond tour taking him away from his family. Not knowing how this decision will impact his life, Shawn asks Katherine Townsend to be Patrick’s nanny while he’s away.

Could this be the key to happiness in his future? Could this mend his broken heart? Or will once again the war threaten any change for a new start for Shawn?

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Your faith is like a fire. If you don’t feed it, it will slowly die out, leaving only ashes and the memory of burning. Without regular time in prayer and God’s Word, your faith can feel like it’s fizzling. Keeping up a personal habit of quiet time can get cause your mind to wander, seem boring, or even feel as though you a simply going through the motions.

Ignite Your Faith, through 365 reflections and activities turns your daily devotions into adventures with topics such as friendship, school, relationships between family members, church, God’s will and more.

Feed your fire of faith with 365 days of fuel. Your walk with Chris may be changed forever.

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By: Steven James

The stakes are at their highest point!

Have the tables been turned on FBI Agent Patrick Bowers? It now looks like a killer is tracking him rather than he tracking the country’s most dangerous killers. It’s a race against time to figure out who the next victim will be and prevent it from ever happening especially since Agent Bowers is starting to think it may be him.

This Psychological thriller is gritty, chilling and it’s intensity will keep you up all night – guaranteed.

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By: Sharon Gillenwater

A second change at your first love?

As a partner on her father’s ranch, surrounded by family and friends Jenna Callahan Colby believed she was content with her life, until she saw Nate Langley back in town. Nate Langley – the first guy she ever noticed, the one her father sent away so many years ago.

Yet to her surprise the attraction they felt would still be as strong as ever.

But Jenna’s cowboy, Nate, has some healing to do. With the help of good friends, a loving family and a strong faith he hopes to put the horrors of two tours of duty in the armed forces behind him, to become the man Jenna deserves.

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By: Stephanie Morrill

For Skylar Hoyt, senior year is over and she’s ready to forgive and forget. She wants a new start. One where her past and her dysfunctional family aren’t known. One where she won’t have to face her ex-boyfriend every time she leaves her home. But can she do it? When given the opportunity to spend the summer in Hawaii with her grandparents, Skylar jumps at the chance to go and start fresh but can she really leave it all behind? Is she strong enough to rise above the gossip from her past and really live the life God wants?

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By: Amanda Cabot

This is a story that everyone can relate to. Added to it, it is set in the 1850’s Texas frontier. This second book in the Texas Dreams series again weaves a beautiful tale of drama, love, and second chances.

As Priscilla Morton longs for adventure, she leaves Boston in 1856 and journeys to the Texas Hill Country. She was looking for adventure and when she finds it, she did not realize how heartbreaking it could be. She meets ranch foreman, Zachary Webster, who is a cowboy haunted by his past mistakes. Although he would love to be the love of Priscilla’s life, he feels she deserves better, like an East Coast gentleman she was used to back home.

During desperate times, however, Zach and Priscilla find themselves drawn together and begin to build a promising life, until the past intrudes. This tale of loss and devastation, which along with it come healing, forgiveness, and second chances, all intertwined with faith, is sure to be a pleaser. We have all felt these emotions at one point or another in our lives and it is joyous to see them work out so miraculously, in the way that only God can make happen.

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