DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES IN THE CHURCH?
Set in the rich back drop of the farming cradle of the Midwest, the Ohio Valley in the 1970s the novel, Dreaming of a Father's Love, is written for a woman's encouragement that her opinions are worthwhile. Her dreams are worthwhile. She is worthwhile, and worthy of love.
Roberta "Birdie" Alexander has a dream. She's heard the men in her family talking about the falling Dow. But if she has her way her dad's foliage will become the standard for all of Ohio. In spite of the economic slowdown she's determined their family business will both survive and thrive. And she'll back up that promise with hard work. And if she works long enough and hard enough her father will love her as much as he loves her older brothers. She approaches her relationship with her heavenly father in the same way.
But how much will she risk ... to hold onto her own will and self- righteousness?
Will losing her job wake her up? Losing a lifelong friend? A brother? Or will it take losing the very presence of God?
Sara Brubaker was two-years-old when a German Baptist couple adopted her. She's become a beautiful woman, and she is the secretary for Alexander's Nursery and Greenhouse.
Now she's torn between wanting to live in the normal world of fun and fashion, and joining the Dunkards to truly belong with her adoptive family. But does she really want to look ... Amish?
And then she learns her parents have been keeping a secret.
Irene West is Birdie's lifelong Sunday school friend. Irene misses having a father figure around, and is very boy crazy, which causes Birdie to struggle with the friendship and Irene to struggle with life.
Birdie thinks it's her job to shame Irene into acting more like a "Christian."
Will Birdie overcome her self-righteous nature before it's too late-for Irene?
*Bonus reader questions included.