The Healing Jar 

(The Prayer Jars #3) 

Paperback – audio CD, ebook

August 6, 2019

by Wanda E. Brunstetter (Author)

Paperback: 320 pages

• Publisher: Shiloh Run Press 
• ISBN-13: 978-1624167492

What if you have waited to find love only to be rejected when it finally comes?
 
Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse’s proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can’t marry only for convenience.
 
Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring for her elders. While working in her grandmother’s garden, she digs up an old jar. Will Lenore find healing for her broken heart and solve long-buried family secrets by reading the note contained inside?

My thoughts (reviewed by Marilyn Ridgway):  

The Healing Jar is the continuation of the characters from The Hope Jar and The Forgiving Jar in The Prayer Jars series by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Readers will meet some new characters that become a vital part of different lives in this book. Lenore Lapp and Jesse Smucker story is one that will bring moments of charm and then tears with the twists and turns in their relationship.

Each of the primary characters from each book faced mountain tops and valleys in their lives but realized God was the answer in each situation. There definitely were unexpected developments for some that I enjoyed seeing being brought to fruition among the secondary characters as this series came to an end. Brunstetter interwove a gentle faith message with multiple scripture verses being quoted or thought by various ones. The Healing Jar was my favorite book in the series.

Even though each book in the series could be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading the complete series in order to see how the primary characters lives changed over the years and how they each came to have a loving relationship with Mary Ruth and Willis Lapp, the grandparents of the primary characters.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author and Barbour Publishing. I was under no obligation to write a review; however, I have expressed my own sincere opinion.