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Books A Latte blog put together a great blog tour to promote a new book called Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World.
I am one of those people who is completely enamored with the Amish!

In 2000 I went to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I learned a lot about Amish and Mennonite communities, and even had the opportunity to eat dinner with an Amish family.

I certainly admired the Amish way of life; they were seemingly insulated from so many of the problems and stresses of modern society.

In preparation for writing Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World, author Suzanne Woods Fisher interviewed dozens of Amish to gain a deeper understanding of their inner peace.

The result is a collection of real-life stories the daily struggles and triumphs of the Amish.

In forging a friendship with Amish families who lost children in the West Nickel Mines School shooting, Fisher saw how the Amish community found calm by trusting in God’s sovereignty.

“We just have to keep going on,” remarked one Amish woman whose family members were among the victims. “People think we’re perfect, but we’re not. Yet we can’t dwell on what happened. We have to leave it in God’s hands.”

That fundamental belief also enabled them to extend incredible, almost immediate forgiveness to the gunman and his family.

What about the rest of us? Can we find peace without learning German and swearing off electricity?

Fisher seems to think so!  Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World focuses on five key elements of the Amish way of life: simplicity, time, community, forgiveness and faith.

Fisher brings these lofty concepts “down to Earth” for the rest of us!

Thank you Revell Books for giving me a complimentary review copy of Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World!

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