Review: Youthful quest for answers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
Amish Faith, Rebekah’s Book, is a story of one young woman’s quest to find the answers to the age-old questions: how can I keep my values, my beliefs, in tack, while expanding my knowledge of the world and satisfying my personal life? How can I make everyone happy? How can I add new people and experiences without losing part of my soul? As I expand my world, do I have to leave all that I grew up believing in behind?Rebekah finds that her expanding world, having to learn so many new things hard and uncomfortable. She asks herself, could she go back to the old way, the Amish way? Should she forget about her dream to become a veterinarian, forget about learning new things and meeting new experiences with an open mind? Forget about love and a fulfilled life.Rebekah struggles with these questions, seesawing back and forth, afraid of moving forward, reluctant to turn back. With help from her family, her community and her best friend, Braeden, she soon finds a way to have it all. It’s not perfect—it’s a compromise between the old way and what will become her new way. It is a more inclusive and broader minded way.Author Kristin Ludwig’s first-person, straightforward, plain as Amish cloth way of telling a story will appeal to young people, high school age, and kids heading off to college. The uncertainties, the fear of the unknown, untried, can bring about immobility, not just for the young, but people of all ages. It is important to stop and ask yourself what you really want, what you really need, what are the basics needed to have a well-rounded, fulfilling life.Rebekah found her way in this book, Amish Faith, Rebekah’s Book by Kristin Ludwig.