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BOOK REVIEW: Monday Morning Faith
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Monday Morning Faith Author: Lori Copeland Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310263492 Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction
Librarian Johanna Holland is happy, more or less. She lives with her ailing parents and Itty Bitty, her two-year old Maltese. Johanna doesn’t like change, resists it like the plague, but life doesn’t stay the same and it pitches her a real curve. Her parents decide they prefer an assisted living apartment to staying at home, which throws Johanna out on her own. She reluctantly turns the big four-oh, which her Aunt Margaret believes qualifies her to be a certified old maid. And she meets Sam Littleton, a Tom Selleck look-alike, who sends her pulse pounding like a jackhammer. But Sam sold out to God as a medical missionary and he’s on his way to Papua, New Guinea, a world away from Saginaw, Michigan.
Johanna has no calling to be a missionary and she doesn’t want one, so how does she end up in a missionary’s hut that is perched on stilts in the middle of a lagoon filled with predatory catfish. She misses Saginaw, hot water, fast food, and her friends, not necessarily in that order. She doesn’t like the filthy village, the smells, the food, and while she doesn’t expect the natives to dress in the latest fashions, it would help, if they would just wear clothes.
Monday Morning Faith is a heartwarming story about the love between a man and a woman struggling to determine their God called gifts. Can a frustrated librarian and a dedicated medical missionary have anything in common?
Lori Copeland has done a lot of research for this story. You’ll experience the village and its quirky residents through Johanna’s eyes, and have a better understanding of the term ‘culture shock.’ You’ll find all the plot twists and turns we expect from Lori Copeland, and as usual her humor is great. Monday Morning Faith will make you laugh, it may even make you cry, and it shows the commitment of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to follow God’s calling, no matter where it leads them.
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