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One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond The Shadow Of The Amish Schoolhouse Shooting (2013)

by Marie Monville(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0310336759 (ISBN13: 9780310336754)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Zondervan

review 1: I've read Think No Evil (Beiler and Smucker) and Amish Grace (Kraybill, Nolt, and Weaver-Zercher) and expected this book to be more of the same. I picked it up because the Amish and the Nickel Mines shooting are well-known in this area but this book is so much more than another perspective on the crime that brought this family into a spotlight they neither caused nor wanted. When Monville's husband entered the Amish schoolroom, young girls became innocent victims but so did Charlie's wife and children, left to face questions for which they had no answers and with no husband or father to support them through it. But long before the schoolhouse shooting, God was meeting Marie right where she was, drawing her closer to him so that when she received the cryptic phone call from... more her husband, telling her that he wasn't coming home, she was almost immediately surrounded by a supernatural peace. As the days became weeks and then months and years, God continued to show her family, in tangible ways, that they were not forgotten; that He was always right there. The pages of this book taught me more about grace and redemption than a lifetime of living.
review 2: This is the story of the family that was left to deal with the consequences of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting in Pennsylvania in 2006. Marie's husband left for work that morning after walking his children to the bus with his wife and a few hours later shot 10 little girls, killing 5 of them and then taking his own life. Marie writes about what life has been like since that day. She called her book a love story. And it truly is. I can't begin to imagine her life but I want to have her faith. And the faith, love and forgiveness that was shown to her by the Amish community was beyond belief. When Marie writes about when the parents of the daughters that were killed came to comfort her, I couldn't read anymore as I was sobbing. This really is a love story about faith, family, forgiveness and redemption. And of course the one light that still shines. less

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