{"id":20842,"date":"2016-09-02T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T02:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=20842"},"modified":"2016-09-02T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T02:38:09","slug":"christmas-at-promise-lodge-by-charlotte-hubbard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=20842","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at Promise Lodge by Charlotte Hubbard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Christmas at Promise Lodge” is a cozy fall and winter holiday novel featuring a somewhat new Amish community in Missouri. Complete with sleigh rides and ice skating on the pond the story is a warm reminder of simple celebrations among family and good friends.<\/p>\n

Yet everything is not all warm and cozy in the Promise Lodge settlement. The community was established by a group of Amish who wanted to get out from under an overbearing bishop but quickly found themselves with another bishop who insisted on setting his own unreasonable rules. Then accidents and illness bring major complications to plans for the holidays and one particular wedding is put on hold, possibly forever.<\/p>\n

The people of Promise Lodge are a varied group with individual and sometimes quirky personalities but they are a close-knit group who work together well and take care of each other. I loved the way they extended grace and mercy even to the most undeserving members with forgiveness the principle they lived by.<\/p>\n

“Christmas at Promise Lodge” is the perfect book for lovers of Amish literature, especially as this year winds down and advances toward another holiday season.<\/p>\n

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A copy of this book was provided for review by Amazon Vine.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the year draws to a close, the brand-new colony of Promise Lodge is thriving, a welcoming community that offers three Amish sisters a fresh start. And as Christmas approaches, gifts big and small are given with love . . .<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Promise Lodge\u2019s first wedding arrives, the evidence of a community building a foundation for the future is a cause for celebration. But the bishop\u2019s narrow-minded wedding sermon doesn\u2019t sit well with the Bender sisters, the town\u2019s courageous founders, especially widowed Mattie Schwartz. She believes marriage and family aren\u2019t the most important of God\u2019s gifts\u2014even if she suspects her tender feelings for Preacher Amos Troyer run deeper than simple friendship.<\/p>\n

Amos hasn\u2019t given up hope that stubborn, spirited Mattie will change her mind about taking another husband, but when an accident threatens to change the course of his life forever, he wonders if the Lord has sent him a message. He\u2019ll need faith, hope, and charity to find the right path\u2014and a Christmas blessing to convince Mattie to walk it with him.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"CharlotteCharlotte Hubbard<\/strong> sold her first historical romance in 1990, and she\u2019s been a slave to her overactive imagination ever since. As she writes, her stories invariably take on a life of their own, different from the way she proposed them: unforeseen characters and plot twists come along, and they keep her guessing right along with her readers!<\/p>\n

Charlotte has lived in the Midwest most of her life. When she\u2019s not writing, she loves touring historic homes, trying new recipes, crocheting, and playing with her Border Collie, Ramona. She\u2019s a Presbyterian deacon, sings in her church choir, and plays in the percussion ensemble. She\u2019s married to a fine man who\u2014bless him\u2014has never once suggested she get a real job!<\/p>\n

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MY REVIEW: “Christmas at Promise Lodge” is a cozy fall and winter holiday novel featuring a somewhat new Amish community in Missouri. Complete with sleigh rides and ice skating on the pond the story is a warm reminder of simple celebrations among family and good friends. Yet everything is not all warm and cozy in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,57,60,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amish","category-books","category-christmas","category-contemporary-fiction","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20848,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20842\/revisions\/20848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}