The Tinderbox: A Review

I love reading books by Beverly Lewis about Amish people.  Beverly Lewis grew up living near Lancaster County Amish Farmland and has been interested in the Amish people all her life.

With her parents’ twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller finds her father’s cherished brass tinderbox left unlocked. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the heirloom, not realizing what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life and alter everything for her close-knit Old Order Amish Family. As the long-kept secret emerges into the light of day, can the Millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness?

Sylvia’s Dad, who is her Dat in the way of speaking for the Amish had been raised as an Englisher also known as fancy. He had come to the Amish country to find a peaceful life married Rhoda and to all appearances had adapted well into the Amish lifestyle. As Mamma said, “it’s like he was born to be Amish.”

Dat learned the clock making trade and became a well-respected member of the Amish community and well-known for the clocks he made as well as the repairs he made for those who needed them.

Sylvia wanted to know more about his background but he did not talk much about that.

You need to read this book to find out what Sylvia found in the Tinderbox. One can learn about relationships from this story specifically how things are done in the Amish community; however, the principles evinced in the Amish lifestyle as shown in these stories can apply to anyone in and outside the Amish community.

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