The Runaway Pastor's Wife
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Rating | : | 4.78 (918 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0615441866 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 436 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-04-25 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Their unexpected reunion couldn't have come at a worse time. God answers her prayer, but in a way she would never expect.Written by a former pastor's wife, Annie's story provides a rare look inside the family life of those in the ministry, particularly the unique pressures on those who marry men of God.. Or could it? Bewildered that God would allow Michael Dean to walk back into her life, Annie pleads with Him to keep her heart true to her husband and her family. She has no way of knowing her college sweetheart is headed to the same cabin in the Rockies, terrified and gravely wounded. An Top 100 Bestseller with 75,000 copies sold and over 650 "Five Star" reviews.What could possibly drive a pastor's wife to run away from home?After years of frustration from life in a church fishbowl,
When she's not reading or writing, Diane enjoys an eclectic taste in music and movies, great coffee, the company of good friends, and the adoration of a peculiar little pooch named Darby.Visit Diane's website at dianemoody and her blog, "just sayin'" at dianemoodyspot
. With over 600 "Five Star" reviews
Joy DeKok said Runaway with Her. Annie McGregor is married to the love of her life. She's confident he feels the same way about her, but there's his job - as a pastor he's a husband and dad second as expected by certain unruly and truly annoying characters who attend his church. Chet and his cronies - I wondered if the author knew the same ones I did. I guess they're all over.Annie's a good wife, mom, and Christian living through a personal crisis that's about to get worse - a lot wor. wallysgma said One dimensional, shallow characters, immature writing.. I am a pastor's wife and the negative things the author writes about clergy family life are absolutely accurate. However, except for one brief paragraph toward the end of the book, she completely ignores the great love and joys that are also a huge part of this life. Her characters were ALL good or ALL bad with no believable mixes of characteristics. Her resolutions of the problems in the book are simply NOT mature. She paints God as a being that provi. My Musings Reader Lady I really did not know what to expect with this book. I do enjoy Christian literature, but I tend to go with inspirational romances. This is not a romance although it does have strong romantic elements and a beautiful and incredibly strong love between Annie and David.While Annie is deeply in love with her husband David, she is worn down by the hypocrisy of his parishioners. They ridicule her husband's decisions, they give her children a hard time and d