Review: Enchanting Preparation for Christmas
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 1, 2013
Rules of Engagement is an enchanting short story, the first in an anthology called The Twelve Days of Christmas. Like everything the multi-award-winning Kathi Macias writes, Rules of Engagement is an escape from the humdrum and stress of life.Twelve days before Christmas, Megan Bosworth doesn't know if she wants to marry the man who is pressing her to announce their engagement. Memories of her grandfather--who is now deceased--remind her of the kind of man she wants to spend her life with. As Megan trims the Christmas tree with her mom, she is reminded of her Christian values, and what she really wants in a spouse. But it is when she volunteers at a home for veterans that she finds the answers to her dilemma when one old soldier, a little hard of hearing, shouts out to another veteran that he doesn't know the Rules of Engagement.Like the tolling of a bell these words ring in Megan's mind, and she knows in her heart that her answer lies in this old military term.For a light, short read when your days leading up to Christmas are packed with activity, Rules of Engagement will encourage you, entertain you, remind you of what your forebears stood for, and prepare your heart for the Christmas.