The
Lutheran Ladies are sassy, have strong-spined opinions, and have stepped out of
your office, your kid's soccer club, or your church to live on these pages.
They deal with change--sometimes poorly--but with humor and heartache, they're
on life's journey.
In Book One: Plucking One String, Vera Henley has pulled the strings of the Lutheran
Ladies Circle for years; now everything has unraveled. Traditions are changing,
even the annual rummage sale can't escape modernization. And the independent
Circle women are cheering the changes--all except for Vera. Her humorous
efforts to stop time are often heart-breaking. And when her high-maintenance,
crazy aunt introduces even more rebellion and upheaval, Vera is forced to pick
through the chaos and choose: Which threads of change should she pluck--and
which should she let go?
When I discovered this ebook
for free on Amazon.com, I had to get it. It sounded so familiar. The outside
world imagines that not only the Lutheran Ladies, but all church ladies are
saints - sewing clothes for third world children, cooking once a week at the
soup kitchen, being the first to volunteer for the winter outerwear drive, and
certainly never thinking – much less saying – a cross thing to another soul.
Well, welcome to the real world. All of us church ladies are sinners like
everyone else. We cop attitudes, we can be slobs, we don’t volunteer at every opportunity.
We are human, but we continue to serve Jello salad at every occasion and we
will attend all the major church functions.
The true joy of reading this
book for me was that a few years ago a group of women from my own church decided to
start our own women’s group. Our thought was that all the older women
in their own women’s groups were getting older and someday the next generation
was going to have to take over. So there we are – getting ourselves in way over
our heads, coming up with more ideas than we can possibly ever bring to
fruition, but maybe, hopefully, there will be a generation to follow us.
My words of advice? Get
involved, where ever you are, and don’t be afraid to speak up. All things can
be changed.
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