DestinationIf you have kids, you probably remember their asking, "Are we there yet?" when you were traveling somewhere. In fact, if you're like me, you remember posing the same question to your own parents when you were young.
Are we there yet? That seems to be a common question in many of our lives, often even more important than where we're going. But maybe we need to slow down and consider our destination: Where are we going? And why? And what road will take us there and not someplace we didn't intend and don't really want to go. These questions have concerned me quite a bit in my life. In being a wife, mother, and grandmother. In writing. As a Christian. Where are you going, my friend? Will your destination meet your heart's desire? Are you going by a true road? And might we meet somewhere along the way? A Season for the HEartCan they find their way home to the land, to the Lord—and to each other?
May 1945. Germany has finally surrendered to the triumphant Allied forces, while in the South Pacific the war against Japan grinds toward a bloody end.
Just graduated from high school and with peace finally on the horizon, Ellie Hershberger longs to explore the wider world, unrestricted by the boundaries of her conservative Mennonite church. But when the neighbor’s son returns from the war crippled and broken, and then suddenly all of her dreams are shattered, she finds herself questioning whether home is a place to escape from—or where her heart’s deepest desires really lie.
Refusing to be baptized and join the Mennonite church he grew up in, Jude Mast ran away from home, enlisted in the Marines, and ended up in the South Pacific. Now, battle-scarred, and crippled by injuries suffered on Iwo Jima, he’s forced to return to the farm community he thought he’d left behind forever. Yet here, where he believes he'll never be forgiven or accepted, might he discover a grace he never conceived of—and a love that changes everything?
During that endless, scorching summer, while the war rages toward its climax in the Pacific, the skies remain as hard and unyielding as iron. But in God’s gracious time there will come a season for the heart.
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