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An Amish Christmas Gift

By Beth Wiseman

Description:

Hannah King and her two children, Mae and Lillian, are facing their first Christmas without their beloved husband and father, who passed only six months ago. Hannah is determined to display strength for her girls, stifling her emotions until she is alone at night crying herself to sleep. But as she tries to hide her grief, she is unaware that her children need her to be emotionally present.

Mae is Hannah's oldest daughter. At eighteen, she is deeply in love with a young man in her Amish community. She is working through the grief she feels over the absence of her father, but something about her mother has changed, and the transformation has Mae fearful to make a commitment to John Byler. Her mother robotically goes through the motions of daily living, but she is a shell of the woman she used to be. Mae walks away from her relationship with John, knowing her mother's grief must be far worse than her own. She isn't going to let that happen to her.

John Byler is in love with Mae, but his admission to her about his feelings causes her to stop seeing him without any explanation. He can only assume that she doesn't love him the way he loves her.

Book Takeaway:

Love can soften grief if we allow ourselves to bask in the memories of those who are no longer
here to celebrate the reason for the season.

Why the author wrote this book:

Christmas can be a difficult time for those who are grieving the recent loss of a loved one. I
know this personally, and I can still recall how I felt when my father died right before Christmas.
I wanted to give hope to others who were facing their first holidays following the passing of
someone special.

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