Levi's Will - Book Review for Mind & Media

God's timing again! I like to read, and signed up with Mind & Media some time ago, to do a book review on my blog. I've never done this before. Today, I got my first book called Levi's Will and just thought it was neat, after going through a major first with Matthew's first birthday in heaven, I have a distraction now with reading this book. I also have an interest in the Amish, as we are close to a community of Amish people, and I have a close friend who is a midwife and deliveries many of their babies.

This is the description of the book that is given on the back cover.

"Dusk. A barn lot on an Amish farm in Ohio. Will’s father doesn’t recognize him at first—it’s been eight years—so he holds a match up to Will’s face to see him better. “I thought you were dead,” Levi Mullet says flatly, then blows out the match and walks away. No hug. No party. This is not how it’s supposed to be. Where’s the fatted calf, the celebration?

Living in the Deep South, Will has raised a family of his own. But the heart of a prodigal is never far from home. For years he’s worked—the only ethic Will understands—to overcome the unrelenting judgmentalism, the ban, of his father and the Old Order Amish, while a festering resentment takes its toll on his wife and children. Only when the life of Will’s youngest son hangs in the balance does he begin to understand the truth—that love is the proof of God, and forgiveness is the proof of love.

Levi’s Will is the haunting story of a fallen man seeking to reconcile the best of the old world with the lessons of the new, in the process building a bridge across three generations."

The author of this book is Mr. W. Dale Cramer, and I also read some of his webpage, and learned that his father was a "runaway Amishman". He personally sounds like a very intersting man - looking to do God's will.

I look forward to sharing this book with you!