Kirjahaku

Some wounds can be seen. Others are hidden. But all can change your life, some to the point of warping a personality, some causing major mental problems, or even, to the inability of living in the world.The people in this book have embedded scars from those wounds--some physical and some emotional. This is their story, set in Cades Cove, deep in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where Thunderhead Mountain looks down on the comings and goings of its inhabitants.Will the scarred couple in this book realize God's love conquers everything, and their newly found love for each other has been His desire all along?

In 2008, hairstylist Amanda Weathers was a happy widow. As a Christ-follower, she attended Church-on-the-Hill, participated in youth activities, and helped in the church's music ministry.Luke Avery, the music minister, was a widower with a child. His declaration of love and unexpected proposal turned Amanda's life upside down. Realizing she loved Luke, she accepted his proposal and found herself immediately in a multitude of his personal problems. This culminated in a situation where she momentarily lost faith and trust in him.For the first time, after my engagement to my music minister, Luke Avery, I doubted. As uncertainty reared its ugly head, I wondered at the folly of selling my lovely house, taking in four strange children under my wing, and marrying a man who seemed to drag a heap of baggage and family problems behind him. What if this relationship fell apart like Humpty Dumpty? What if it couldn't be mended?This whirled around in Amanda Weather's mind.

Melva Tipton lives in Chilhowee, Tennessee. She is a feisty, outdoorsy, young girl with her own mind, which is encouraged by her parents, Noah and Nancy Tipton. Noah is the owner of Tipton Mercantile. Melva sees a handsome man, Burl Whitehead and decides she will marry him.Meantime, Melva receives another botched proposal from her best friend's brother. She turns him down, causing a rift in the relationship with the sister which never mends.Burl is in no mood to be caught. But circumstances change his mind. After their marriage, Melva has a hard but idyllic life until faced with a terrible tragedy. This precipitates a decision she must make. Like before, Melva heads for her Secret Place where she mulls the problem with the help of the family Bible. When a voice in her ear whispers, "Melva, I have chosen you, why haven't you chosen me," she must make a decision. This choice will change her life.This book is set against the building of the ALCOA dams on the Little Tennessee River, prohibition, before, during, and after World War I, and the measles epidemic and depression of the thirties.

1500 years ago, or thereabouts, a family set sail from the cold, windswept marshes of Frisia on the coast of what is now Northern Germany and crossed the North Sea to Brittania (England) in search of a new life. This tribal family settled on the River Tame and farmed in the West Midlands of England. The tribal chief's name was Tybba. The settlement was known as Tybba's Tun (Tybba's farm or village) or Tybbington and finally Tipton.After living in Brittania (England) for over a thousand years, they were known as gentlemen, meaning men of some wealth. A descendant of this family would make another journey across a greater expanse of water, to the West Indies. He and his family would eventually establish a home in Jamaica. Working through fact and fiction, legend and lore, and including people both real and imaginary, this Two-Part Book explores their stories from the first settlement on the River Tame to the first descendant to step foot on the Chesapeake Bay. Jonathan Tipton, born in Jamaica, was a real man and the first ancestor of this family to establish his home in a land soon to be known as the United States of America.The name of this epic story is The Tipton's of Tybbington-Before and Beyond. It is written by one of Jonathan's descendants, and is included in The Tipton Chronicles