Beth Wisemen's 'His Love Endures Forever' is a story about two young people, one Amish, one an englisher , and how their lives and cultures collide. Most stories about interaction between the two cultures involve an Amish girl falling for an englisher boy. Leave it to Beth Wisemen to turn that around. She brings us a story of a young girl who falls in love with a young Amish man. The girl, Danielle, has suffered abuse at the hand of her mother and is taken in by an older couple, Martha and Arnold. I loved these two characters! Martha is a quirky, odd but loveable woman and Arnold is her tender and sensitive husband.Danielle discovers that she is pregnant, but her Amish beau, Matthew, wants nothing to do with fatherhood. In fact, he plans to leave the Amish and doesn't want to be tied down. Danielle is prepared to raise her baby on her own but her best friend, another Amish young man named Levi, has his own suggestion.
This story is about forgiveness, mercy, grace, faith, decisions, consequences and love. As with most of Wisemen's books, once I started it I didn't want to put it down. I love the way she draws you into the emotions of the characters.
From the publisher's website:
"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.
And 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."
This is the third book of the Land of Canaan series and I was glad to become reaquainted with some of the characters for the first and second books.
To learn more about BethWiseman and her books, go to her website.
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