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The Forgiving Jar The Prayer Jars Wanda E Brunstetter 9781624167485 Books Reviews

I read the first book in this series last year and for the most part I enjoyed it. This book is kind of a continuation of that story. I do feel like it would really benefit to read the first book to get the whole picture, however, I suppose a person could just read this book, as there is a bit of back drop.
This book focuses more on Sara than Michelle, but actually has quite a bit of both characters. (Michelle was the main character of the first book.) Sara, who is introduced in the first book, comes to live with her Amish grandparents, only to find that Michelle, who deceived her grandparents in book one, has returned. Sara has plenty of resentment and bitterness from her past, mostly focused on the fact that her mother kept the fact that she was brought up Amish from her. And she also never told Sara who her father was. Sara simply cannot forgive or get past it. Seeing Michelle only stirs up more resentment and bitterness. Sara, who is not a Christian, finds the jars in the basement with verses and prayers on slips of paper and begins reading them. Slowly, God begins a work in her life.

What impressed me about this book is that God's Word is a living and active Word. The same verses that helped aid in Michelle's healing, conviction and bringing her to the Savior as prayers in the first book, also brought Sara to God in the second, but centered more on forgiveness this time around. Which, of course, demonstrates how the Scriptures are living and active and just what we need for each circumstance we are going through. The same Scripture can impress us in different ways.

The idea of Michelle becoming Amish was interesting. I wasn't really sure if she would have decided on it, if it hadn't been for Ezekiel and her interest in him or not... I think it would have been interesting to know a little more about the classes she was taking, and the possibility of things not working out with her and Ezekiel affecting her decision. I was happy for them, but I kept wondering what would have happened if things hadn't worked out between them, would she still have wanted to be Amish?

Once again, the style of dialog for wasn't really my favorite. It still kind of felt like it was written for a younger age group. I felt the same way about the first book. Parts seemed simple with not a lot of depth to the characters or much description. There were times when the characters really annoyed me! It centered a lot around what they were thinking. However, that didn't deter me from reading and I still found the plot to be interesting. I do feel it could have been a bit shorter.

I was blessed with a copy of this book courtesy of the publisher. All opinions are my own.
Second in The Prayer Jars series, Wanda Brunstetter welcomes the reader back to Strasburg, Pennsylvania and the home and farm of Mary Ruth and Willis Lapp. I appreciate this powerful novel much more than The Hope Jar. The Lapps are folks I think many of us would like to have as grandparents!

After the death of Rhoda, her mother, Sara Murray found a letter in Mom’s Bible that changed her life. The letter explained how her mother had been raised Amish. When Rhoda learned she was pregnant, she left her loving parents, never returning. Sara does not know who her father is, only her stepfather, Dean. Sara has since visited and spent time with the Lapps after a young woman, Michelle, deceived them, letting them think she was their granddaughter. She left when she knew the real Sara was arriving, and her Amish friend Ezekiel brought her back to apologize to them. They forgave her and invited her to stay with them again until she gets back on her feet. She is determined to get a job and earn money to pay back the cash she borrowed from their stash when she left.

Sara returns to stay at her grandparents’ home as her job has ended, and she hopes to find one near their home so she can get to know them. She finds Michelle in the barn, stunned and angry that she is there again. Certain Michelle is going to try to get something from them, Sara wants her far away from her grandparents. She refuses to forgive the deception Michelle acted out. When the Lapps arrive at home, they find their beloved granddaughter Sara talking about leaving, and unable to understand how they could forgive Michelle.

Sara is a bitter young woman who feels people have lied to her all their lives. She is unforgiving, even of her late mother, for keeping her away from her grandparents and her birth father. She won’t even try to get along with Michelle. When in the basement of the house one day, she finds a jar full of scripture verses and quotes that someone has saved. Curious, she reads a couple, and returns more than once to see what she will find in it. Sara doesn’t believe in God, however, certain that if God exists, He would care about her, listen to her prayers, even answer them. It takes more than one crisis and a deception of her own, before she is willing to listen hear what Michelle might have to share with her and begin to understand forgiveness.

Sara is the primary focus of The Forgiving Jar, even though we do see the continuous changes in Michelle’s life. Both young women are described well, as are the Lapps. Sara was easy to have empathy for when realizing that I have struggled with some of the same emotions. Mary Ruth and Willis, being faithful people of prayer, continue to bring the situation before the Lord. It will be like meeting a new person if the writer of scriptures and quotes in the prayer jars is revealed!

Forgiving others is a focus for several people in this novel. I have had to look at my own “history” of forgiving others, and how often I think the slate is clean until remembering a person or event. This delightful yet serious novel is a lesson in many ways. There are twists in the plot, some sweet and some not as sweet, that truly make the story what it is. I highly recommend this to fans of the author and of well-written Amish Christian fiction.

From a grateful heart I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher and NetGalley, and this is my honest review.
Wanda Brunstetter never disappoints!! Her books are great reads!! Such a blessing to be able to read books with good Christian values and lots of Bible scriptures!!
WANDA BRUNSTETTER WHAT A FANTASTIC STORY OF TWO YOUNG LADIES FROM TOTALLY DIFFERENT BACK GROUNDS ENDING UP WITH THE WONDERFUL LOVING AND FORGIVING AMISH COUPLE WOW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT BOOK