Stepping heavenward- Book Review

Have you ever read a book that just made you want to hoard it away and not tell anyone about it? That's funny, huh?- especially when you are an avid reader like me and love to share a good book with other book lovers (who would actually like to have a book recommendation ).



I have certain books that are just so tender to me that I keep them on the protected "love" shelf of my heart because I could never bear to have a harsh word spoken about them or to have a critical tongue splatter their characters with ridiculous notions or even to have an ignorant and careless opinion spoken of them.



What kind of books hold such a tender place in my heart? Books such as Chronicles of Narnia, Little House on the Prairie, Lord of the Rings, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Christy and the one I am now going to share - (with trepidation less a critical word is ever spoken of it !)



Stepping Heavenward by Mrs. E Prentiss




I mentioned it in a previous post, and had such an itch to read it again and just fell in love with it all over again.
Allow me to quote from the book as Kate welcomes a new baby into her home:

"She (Martha- her sister- in -law)says I shall now have one more mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.

Well! this is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost; since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!"