Story Description:
Thomas Nelson|October 2, 2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-1-59554-888-7
An unplanned pregnancy. An
absent father. Can love really endure
all things?
Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen
in love with an Amish man.
Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father –
Matthew Lapp – will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado
settlement for a life in the Englisch world.
But that plan never included a baby.
When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has
nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship
with Levi offers some comfort – yet they have so little in common. This wasn’t the plan she had for her life,
and she has never felt so alone. She
doesn’t want to be pregnant. Doesn’t
want to be Amish. Doesn’t want to trust
God. An yet...
God has plans beyond what her mind can imagine…loving plans to show a
lost young woman that His love never fails but endures forever.
“Wiseman is among the best at writing moving Amish fiction.” – Booklist review of The Wonder of His Love.
My Review:
Eighteen-year-old Danielle Kent, an Englischer, is in love with an
Amish man named Matthew Lapp. She finds
out she is pregnant and when she tells Matthew he is not happy and tells her
that he doesn’t love her. He has no
intentions on becoming a husband or a father.
Matthew has plans to tell his family that he is leaving their Amish
community and going out into the Englisch world to obtain an education at
college. Danielle is devastated and
flees to be with her good Amish friend, Levi Detweiler for comfort. Levi’s mother, Vera, doesn’t like Danielle
and keeps warning Levi that the girl is bad news and is trying to lure him away
from their Amish community.
Danielle’s own mother was not the best parent in the world after
beating Danielle and drinking too much.
However, Danielle was now safe and living with family friend, Martha
Becker and her new husband, Arnold, a sweetheart of a man. Martha attended the Amish church although she
herself was not Amish but the congregants had accepted her as one of their own
often explaining to her the parts of the service conducted in Pennsylvannia
Dutch that she didn’t understand.
Throughout the rest of the story, Danielle began to blame God for
everything bad that happened to her or for what didn’t work out in her
favour. She was so confused and felt if
God was supposed to be so loving and caring, then why was He allowing all these
things to keep happening to her? She
even tried praying but it backfired on her, leading her to believe all the more
that God didn’t care about her and in fact, hated her.
But, little does Danielle know that God does have plans for her beyond
her wildest dreams. Those plans are slow
to materialize and it takes some more confusion, soul searching, and even the
odd prayer on Danielle’s part to realize what was happening.
His Love Endures Forever reminded
me about the many times I’ve felt those little ‘nigglings’ and chose to ignore
them only realize later that it was God who was wanting me to pay attention and
proceed ahead with something or stop dead in my tracks because I was completely
wrong. After reading this beautiful
story of Danielle, Matthew, and Levi, I will get back to making a concentrated
effort to have more faith and listen to those little ‘nigglings’ when I feel
them. Sometimes we need to experience
bad, disappointing or uncomfortable situations in order to get to the good
place God wants us to be.
Another factor in this story is the subject of forgiveness which is
extremely hard for some people. But
again, reading His Love Endures Forever has
reminded me that we can’t have a true, loving, faithful, and honest
relationship with God if we harbour ill will toward others. We must forgive in order to keep our
relationship with God pure and totally loving.
God loves us unconditionally anyway but deep within our own hearts it
can be a dark place if we continue to hold back on forgiving those we need to
forgive. God already knows what is in
our hearts and if we don’t approach him with integrity and a true honesty in
faith that we really are committed to forgiving that person(s), God already
knows if you’re being honest and truly feeling those feelings versus just words
of “I forgive” if you don’t really meant it.
His Love Endures Forever is
the absolute perfect title for this novel and you’ll see why once you’ve read
it. And friends, by the end of the
story, trust me, you’ll be wanting and needing to renew your relationship with
our Heavenly Father. I’ll definitely be
passing the word around about this beautifully written novel. Well done!!
I wish to thank Thomas Nelson for the preview copy. All opinions expressed here about this book
are strictly my own and I did not receive any monies for providing those
opinions/comments.
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