Review: LIFE LESSONS & CLASSIC COMEDY
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
Beatrice “Mama B” Jackson is the warm, loving, compassionate church mother of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.  Though her husband has passed on, his work with Pastor Philips lives on through Mama’s B’s continued dedication to the church.  In this installment, Pastor Philips takes a leave of absence to spend his wife’s last days with her.  In the wake of his sabbatical, an interim pastor is brought into lead the flock, but he and his wife rub Mama B the wrong way.  In the meantime, her house becomes a place of refuge to her estranged great-grandson and his mother who is fleeing a controlling boyfriend.  How this woman in her seventies will juggle everyone else’s issues along with her full life will keep you turning pages until the end!A Time to Speak by Michelle Stimpson was an awesome read.  Mama B reminds me of the typical Christian grandmother that is serious about the Lord and extremely comical all in the same breath.  I love her character and could not get enough!  There are so many different life lessons embedded within the storyline, but what I appreciate is that even with all her wisdom, Mama B is learning as well.  She is not one to act as if she has everything all together and has no problem admitting her own faults.  I would recommend this title to all Christian fiction readers.  This was such a refreshing title that I can’t wait to read the next book in the series, A Time to Dance.