By Christine C. Schneider
Dorothy is content with her life as a wedding seamstress.
She loves her two adult children, her husband, and her church. She is gifted
with the ability to turn heaps of pink satin, lemon-yellow chiffon, and white
lace into exquisite gowns. Her clients are beautiful, well-bred, and pay her
well. Dorothy doesn’t like change, but even volunteering at the crisis
pregnancy center doesn’t shake her peaceful life too much. She does what she
can to offer help to women who are dealing with real, life-changing decisions.
Then Bailey wanders into the clinic: angry, abrasive, and hiding the pain of a
dark secret.
In a moment of wild compassion, Dorothy convinces her wonderfully supportive
husband, Gary, to allow her to invite Bailey to live with them until the baby
is born.
Suddenly, Dorothy’s life is overwhelmed by change, and unable to keep up,
Dorothy makes some huge errors in judgment. Instead of helping Bailey,
everything Dorothy does seems to hurt the girl more.
Only Dorothy’s son, Daniel, begins to recognize Bailey’s potential, as he sees
her reach out to support Dorothy when Gary has a heart attack and her daughter
has a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Bailey is suffocated by the realization that this
wonderful, loving family would not want her if they knew that she had allowed
her first child to be aborted.
As Dorothy sews her way through a year of weddings, Bailey challenges Dorothy’s
compassion and points out her lukewarm, Christian hypocrisy. The poor girl
doesn’t know how to clean her room, run a washing machine, or cut up a
cucumber. In addition, Dorothy’s church doesn’t want “people like Bailey” to
taint their youth and college group. Worst of all, her son, Daniel, has decided
to try to win the heart of Bailey. As the year progresses, Dorothy is
confronted with her own ungodly self-centeredness, lack of spiritual depth, and
stubborn resistance to changing her plans for herself and her family.
This is the story of the growth of love between a young woman in need of a
mother and a mother with enough love for more than her own two children.
What Readers are Saying:
I finished the book because I couldn’t stop reading. I love the story, I
love the characters, I love the message, I love the writing style, I love it
all. I want to go back so I can better appreciate the character development and
story arc. I cried multiple times throughout the book.
—Betty, missionary and missionary wife in Kenya
Carolyn’s Rewrite
The book was hard to put down until it was finished. Dorothy is an empty
nester, encouraged by her son to volunteer at a pregnancy center. She does, but
struggles some since her gifts to help are not typical to other volunteers. She
connects with one woman, Bailey, who has made some bad decisions and needs a
role model. The book answers the real question about what is more important in
life. –Carolyn, Austria
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Christine Schneider is passionate about showing people how
to dig treasure from God’s word. She is a Bible teacher, conference speaker,
and “idea person.” She and her husband have been in missionary and church work
since their marriage in 1973. She has written several Bible study guides and
two historical novels. Christine and Floyd, her husband, live in Plains, MT.
They have two sons, two excellent daughters-in-law, and eight wonderful
grandchildren.
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