Falling for GraceBy Janet W. FergusonDescription:
Grace Logan has taken a lot of tumbles in life, but she works hard to bounce right back. Dreams shattered and hope for reconciliation gone, Grace needs a place where she can pick herself up now that her ex is marrying her former best friend. Her boss's beach house in Santa Rosa seems like the perfect getaway, but stumbling into the attractive-but-damaged handyman next door isn't part of the plan. Book Takeaway:
This story deals with the incredibly painful grief of losing a child. I know I’m not able to adequately deliver the message of what horror that must be, having never lost a baby whom I had held in my arms. I did lose one through miscarriage, which was an extremely sad time for me—that deep ache of loss and disappointment. In my grief, I often felt isolated, since my husband and I were the only ones who had known this child—other than God. During that experience, I often mourned silently at the sight of fully pregnant women and infants born around when mine would’ve been, or reaching those sweet milestones. Not that I didn’t want others to be joyful and have healthy children, but I wondered what my child would’ve been like, and those what ifs often spun through my heart. What if I’d done something differently? Had I lifted something too heavy, worked too hard weeding the flower bed? Was it my fault? I Awards:
Why the author wrote this book:I believe our God can take our sorrows and our tears, capture them, and form those crumbled shards in a new way, though painful, into something precious. |