Review: Too short
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
I have to agree with those who say that this story moved too quickly.  It was unbelievable that a couple would meet and decide to marry in such a short period of time...that just did not seem to reflect real life.  However, if you consider that back in the days when premarital sex was absolutely not considered, good Christian couples HAD to marry quickly in order to keep from sinning.  In that respect, I guess it was sort of believable.Because I am a PK (Preacher's Kid) and spent so many years attending church literally every time the doors were open, what struck me was how many members of the church were content to sit back and do nothing while Anna carried her load and everyone else's too.  This very much reflects real life.  Anna sees nothing wrong with being responsible for the Nursery for both Sunday School and church on Sunday morning, keeping the Nursery again on Sunday night, keeping the children on Wednesday night and organizing Vacation Bible School.She is in the Nursery so much that the young, handsome and unmarried new pastor has been at the church for several weeks before she ever even meets him. When they first meet and he learns that the reason they have not previously met is because Anna has never attended one of his sermons because she is totally responsible for the Nursery when the mothers of the children in the nursery will not even take a turn watching their own children, Pastor Dan decides something must be done.  As he and Anna work together to solve this problem, they discover in each other exactly what they have been looking for.I enjoyed the book but I wish it had been longer so the relationship could have developed a little bit more before the "M word" was mentioned.  It also would have been fun to actually see Anna get out of the Nursery and some other members of the church doing their fair share.