Herb of Grace

📖 The Scoop

While a young Dokterfraa learns to heal the body, the Great Physician heals the heart... After the loss of her husband, Sarah Yoder is doing her best to provide a home where her family and members of her Old Order Amish church can find fellowship and friendship. But it's getting more and more difficult to make ends meet-until the local Dokterfraa, or herbal healer, makes a startling suggestion: Could she begin training as a healer? Sarah is thrown into a dilemma--caring for others could take her away from home, yet she must be willing to take the place where God wants her. Whether she agrees to train as an herbalist or not, it appears that her family is splintering. Her stepson Simon wants to move out west to find work. Her youngest, Caleb, is spending far too much time over at the tumbledown home of Henry Byler, who left the church long ago. Henry inherited the family farm and has returned-under protest-never suspecting that God has been waiting for him there all this time. When Sarah takes her first case, she discovers that the heart can be scarred as deeply as the body. As she compiles her herbs, she waits for God to do his healing work: In a man who rues a harsh decision. In a lonely prodigal who has lost everything. And maybe even in a herbalist-in-training who firmly believes she will never love again...

Genre: Fiction / Religious (fancy, right?)