A COLLECTION OF WEDNESDAYS: Creating a Whole from the Parts

A COLLECTION OF WEDNESDAYS:

Creating a Whole from the Parts

Amy Gaither Hayes
Zondervan
ISBN: 9780310318958

224 pages, Hardcover

                                                                                                                                  

Amy Gaither Hayes:

a busy wife, mother, drama teacher, performer and daughter

But in her young years she had set aside a bit of her Wednesday mornings to spend time with the Lord and write. By doing this Amy has given herself time to get in touch with God, listen to Him and to reflect on her thoughts. She has kept journals of these days and has decided to share some of her collection with us.

Amy has taken some of her collections, divided them into 14 sections with an essay of her thoughts. She concludes each section with at least one of her poems relating to the section. She has filled this little book with her thoughts of everyday life and how God’s has impacted it.

The chapter on “Mentor”, Amy shares that she got to know Madeleine L’Engle as a teen and maintained a correspondence with her until Madeleine’s death. The longest chapter, “Books” could have been a little shorter. I feel it would have been better to have included the list of books at the end of the book as a list of books recommended by her to read.

I really enjoyed the part about how a jigsaw puzzle had pulled the people together after Bible study.

The way “A Collection of Wednesdays” has been arranged makes it easy to pick up as a devotional or at the time of a “storm” in your life.

On a scale of one to five, I’d give this book a four.

Thank you Zondervan for this review copy.