Please note that the original titles for this series were released as “Hannah’s Dream” and “Hannah”. Harvest House has now brought the whole series together in an improved version as “A Dream for Hannah” – “A Hope for Hannah” – and the all new “A Baby for Hannah”.

A reviewer of, “A Hope for Hannah”, wrote, ”Although I’m not Amish in reality, I feel Amish at heart. I am a Christian and worship our Lord and Savior and have spent the last ten years longing for the Amish simplicity in life. My wife and I are both reading “A Hope for Hannah” by Jerry Eicher and have fallen so deep into the story that it almost feels like Hannah and Jake are real and in our lives. We are happy when Hannah is happy and pleased, and sometimes feel like crying when Hannah is hurt. The saddest page of the book is the last page because we know that we will be losing our friends that we have grown to love. Most interestingly though is that we were considering relocating to Whitefish, Montana prior to ever reading this book. Now we wonder if this book is God’s way of telling us that there are true and wonderful people in that area awaiting to be our friends. We now wish we could make the move and find the real Hannah and Jake just down the road waiting to sell us a new table and chairs and become our friends.”

Another reviewer wrote, “This story is so good, like real life. If you can trust God, everything will work out for the best. Thanks so much for putting your heart into the story. I want to read the other two books about Hannah. Please keep up the good work.” Sandy in TN.

http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Amish-Ira-Wagler/dp/1414339364/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1308068044&sr=8-1

The last of the “Hannah’s Heart” Series with all new material nears its release date and continues to climb the charts at Christian Books online. http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=amish+fiction&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCN&nav_search=1&cms=1

This book features Hannah’s sister Miriam who travels west looking for love, and Aunt Betty again. She is funnier than ever. A book you won’t want to miss, and a book that would never have happened if Harvest House had not picked up the first two Hannah books as re-releases. My thanks to the editors at Harvest House, Nick Harrison and Peggy Wright, for their encouragement.

1. He is recovering from his illness, but is still not quite up to power.

2. Among other injuries, his rotary cuff was broken.

3. Black clouds rolled ominously toward him. Lightning flashed and thunder roared.

4. When humans become dissatisfied with their church, they are more easily let astray by false teachings.

5. The principal of separation from the world is taught in Romans 12:2.

6. After his heart attack, he had a stint put in his heart.

7. We had a cacci camel duck this year. They are better layers than a chicken, and some have laid 365 eggs in a year.

8. Grandma broke the chocolate into handy little morals for us to share.

9. Son Nathan ran over a snake and killed it about three times. It turned out to be a copperhead.

10. The border officials asked us for our personal indentification.

11. Some children have learned that they can argue with their parents and get their own way.

12. The child was badly hurt when he fell beneath a row tarry hoe.

13. While hospitalized, he suffered staff infection.

14. Submission is a hard lesson to learn. It is always easiest to learn it at Daddy’s knee and Mama’s lap.

15. I prepared an early lunch for our pre-scholars.

16. Someone counted the amount of people at the funeral and there were 650.

17. Kraft produces enough Cool Whip in one year to fill the Grand Canyon.

18. In I Peter 2:12 we are cautioned to “live in the world but not be of it.”

19. Windmills were a common site when the Amish first arrived but are now rarely used.

20. The person who wrote the forward of the book recomended it highly.

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Answers.

1. Power should be par.

2. The correct term is rotator cuff.

3. Sentence correct.

4. Should read, more easily led astray

5. Principal should be principle.

6. Stint should be stent.

7. The breed of duck referred to is the Khaki Campbell.

8. Morals should be morsels

9. You cannot kill three times.

10. Identification not indentification

11. Sentence correct

12. The farm implement referred to is a rotary hoe.

13. Staff should be staph.

14. Sentence is correct

15. Pre-scholar should be preschooler.

16. If the people could be counted, then it would be correct to say, the number of people at the funeral. Amount refers to a mass, not to something we can count.

17. Just a minute. Someone doesn’t realize how big the Grand Canyon is. The estimated amount comes to ten gallons every day for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.A. Any responsible editor should catch such wild claims and not print them.

18. It is uncertain what Bible verse is being quoted, but it certainly isn’t 1 Peter 2:12.

19. Site should be sight.

20. Two mistakes here. The correct spellings are foreword and recommended.

A group of Alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the Professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups-porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive and some exquisite, telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cup–and you began eying each other’s cups.

“Now consider this–life is the coffee, the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not define nor change the quality of the life we live. Sometimes by concentrating only on the cup we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us. God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy the coffee.”

http://www.irawagler.com/

Note – Three answers to the April question, from Family Life, have been posted in the answers section of A Real Amish Question. 

Next Problem

    The thing I have been secretly dreading for years is now in front of me. I am about to become a mother-in-law.

    It is my heart’s desire to have a loving and peaceful relationship with my son’s wife. Yet I’m not sure I know how. So often there is tension between in-laws, especially between the mother and daughter-in-law. What causes this? Why is the mother-in-law often regarded as a thron-in-the-flesh? (Or it can be vice versa)

   While I do not want to be a meddling, overbearing mother-in-law, neither do I want to cut myself completely out of the lives of my son and his wife. Can those with less than peaceful relationships tell me what I shouldn’t do? Also, those who have peace between them, what does your “mother” do that makes you fell loved and accepted?

   Is it okay for a mother-in-law to offer advice at any time? Or should she (no matter what) stay out of it?

                   – Wanting peace

Editor’s note —  I believe this has the potential to be a very helpful discussion. Let’s hear from all of you who have had experience, both positive and negative. Is there a special pitfall if in-laws live on the same property and rub shoulders every day? How can trust and understanding be built up rather than undermined?