Susanne Kessaris shares rich memories from her childhood spending happy summers with her grandparents. They modeled frugality and contentment through simple pastimes and activities. The books title recalls the hours she spent making checkerboard quilt squares with her grandmother. Susannes childhood was filled with many adventures: exploring jungle attractions in southern Florida, hunting for treasures in her grandparents basement, bug and bird-watching explorations as well as plant identification forays in her grandparents garden. Her imagination expanded through such creative playtimes. Memories of these special times awoke the authors passion to raise awareness of how our modern overemphasis on technology has begun to affect relational and developmental growth in children. Her book offers activity ideas for children as an alternative to the use of digital gadgets for entertainment. In this memory collage, she shares some of her many exploits through her gift of storytelling.
Author Susanne Kessaris knew from the miraculous births of her children that God was speaking to her early on about letting go, but like most parents, she wanted to cling tightly and was not prepared for the day they grew up. In Bagpipes, Planes, and Strings, she talks about how she fought to surrender to God’s will through a series of events. First, she had a scary ordeal with skin cancer. A few short years later, she found herself facing an emergency hysterectomy. Next, she struggled to release her daughter to pursue a calling to go on a mission in South America. She later lost her father to congestive heart failure. When her family decided to sell their house and move, she was finally willing to let go and realize that God had strengthened her to face her life challenges one step at a time. Bagpipes, Planes, and Strings refers to sounds that will forever stir Susanne’s soul and remind her of each of her painful journeys of letting go. Her inspiring story of grace and faith challenges you to embrace God, the only constant you have when your world is falling apart around you and the future seems hopeless and out of reach.
About the Book If you have followed this series, you know by now that story-telling is what Susanne does best. She has entwined entertaining anecdotes throughout her books regaling funny stories about herself and her family. Hashtag Greek life, high school sweethearts, and opposites really do attract are just a few of the themes in this new collection. In A Union Sent From Heaven, Susanne shares that her desire was to honor God first and foremost before she sought out and started developing a dating relationship. Finding a Christian date dedicated to their faith and willing to commit to a long-term relationship in our modern age has become quite a challenge amongst the younger generation. Dating styles of yesterday should not be forgotten in this fast-paced age of online dating and texting communications where manners and transparency are mostly lacking. Romance takes energy and dedication. Susanne hopes you will be inspired by this story of an enduring and rare kind of love. About the Author Susanne Kessaris is the author of Bagpipes, Planes and Strings: A Woman’s Journey In Letting Go and The Checkerboard Quilt: A Memory Collage Of My 1960s Childhood. She completes the series in this autobiographical collection of stories about meeting her husband, becoming a young bride, and setting up housekeeping during her early years of marriage. Aside from writing and blogging, Susanne enjoys gardening and decorating projects at her home in South Carolina. You can visit her at susannesfavoritestories.com.
Susanne Kessaris shares rich memories from her childhood spending happy summers with her grandparents. They modeled frugality and contentment through simple pastimes and activities. The books title recalls the hours she spent making checkerboard quilt squares with her grandmother. Susannes childhood was filled with many adventures: exploring jungle attractions in southern Florida, hunting for treasures in her grandparents basement, bug and bird-watching explorations as well as plant identification forays in her grandparents garden. Her imagination expanded through such creative playtimes. Memories of these special times awoke the authors passion to raise awareness of how our modern overemphasis on technology has begun to affect relational and developmental growth in children. Her book offers activity ideas for children as an alternative to the use of digital gadgets for entertainment. In this memory collage, she shares some of her many exploits through her gift of storytelling.
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