Amish Values For Your Family Blog Tour + Giveaway 9/3

For readers who long for strong families that know how to truly enjoy life together, there is much to learn from the Amish. Values like community, forgiveness, simple living, obedience, and more can be your family legacy--without selling your car, changing your wardrobe, or moving out to farm country. In Amish Values for Your Family, bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher shows how you can adopt the wisdom of the Amish when it comes to family matters. In this inspiring and practical book readers will find charming true stories interlaced with solid, biblical advice about parenting, marriage, and all aspects of family life. As readers get an intimate glimpse into the everyday lives of real Amish families, they will learn to prioritize what's truly important, simplify decision-making, slow down as a family, safeguard time together, and let go when the time comes.

I have always been fascinated  by the Amish. I have read many books about them and I have to admit that was one of my favorites. As each short story told me about a occurrence that took place in the Amish community. A few years ago I was visiting a friend in Indiana and she took me to Shipshewana where they is a large population of Amish.  Most businesses are closed in the evenings and on Sundays, reflecting  the Amish tradition of strong family values and close ties within the community.  My favorite in the book was~

"God Doesn't Make Mistakes" as in that story "Barbara" had 11 children and then he husband passed away.And sure it was hard to raise the kids on her own~but she wouldn't have had it any other way. 

I didn't have 11 children but I raised 3 on my own and I agree with Barbara that at times I wanted to cry as it was hard but at the end of a long day when they were asleep and looked so innocent there wasn't a thing that I would change either. As they had to do without many things too when they were young but understood as we talked about it and they know that there was just not extra money. Our children may not always acts like blessings~but they truly are.

We can all learn something from the Amish ,as they are the only people that rely on so little~but seem so rich....

     About Suzanne~

Her interest in the Amish began with her grandfather, W.D. Benedict, who was raised Plain. She has many, many Plain relatives living in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and travels back to Pennsylvania, as well as to Ohio, a couple of times each year for research.

Suzanne has a great admiration for the Plain people and believes they provide wonderful examples to the world.  In both her fiction and non-fiction books, she has an underlying theme: You don't have to "go Amish" to incorporate many of their principles--simplicity, living with less, appreciating nature, forgiving others more readily-- into your life.

When Suzanne isn't writing or bragging to her friends about her first new grandbaby (!), she is raising puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. To Suzanne's way of thinking, you just can't take life too seriously when a puppy is tearing through your house with someone's underwear in its mouth.

Suzanne can be found on-line at: www.suzannewoodsfisher.com. 

~ My Giveaway~

You can Win

Amish Values For Your Family for you own!!

Please Enter Below~

{There is also a contest from Suzanne after this post}

 

Suzanne Woods Fisher is thrilled to announce the release of Amish Values for Your Family, her latest non-fiction release. ”It offers loving ways to bring your fractured home back to life-Amish style. Read it and apply generously! It’s a beautiful book-funny, charming, soulful, and beautiful.” -Mary Ann Kirkby

Read the reviews here.

To celebrate the release of Amish Values for Your Family, Suzanne has teamed up her publisher Revell Books to giveaway a Kindle, and with Bill Coleman (the amazing photographer used on Suzanne’s book covers) to give away a signed Bill Coleman original.

One Grand Prize winner will receive an Amish Values Prize Package (valued at over $200) and includes:

* A brand new KINDLE
* A Signed Bill Coleman original
* Amish Values for Your Family (for KINDLE)

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Click on one of the icons to enter. Winner will be announced on 9/2 at Suzanne’s blog. Be sure to stop by the blogs on Suzanne’s blog tour – as many more have copies of Amish Values for Your Family to give away.



As a participant in this blog tour, Litfuse Publicity Group provided me with a free copy of the book Amish Values For Your Family.All opinions expressed are my own and no monetary compensation was received.