Barbara's Product Reviews & Giveaways
November 22, 2011 11:42 AM
A Good and Perfect Gift
[Kathryn, Ellen, and Debbie S. are the winners of this giveaway. Thanks to all who entered! And thanks to Bethany House for sponsoring it! You can find A Good and Perfect Gift
at Amazon.]
Did we need another book about Down syndrome? compared to 1993, when Jonny was born, there was one book around for parents. Now there are countless books - including books by parents about their own experience being surprised by a baby with Down syndrome.
So did we need another book? After reading Good and Perfect Gift, A: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny
, I
would have to say Yes! Yes! A thousand times Yes!Beautifully written by a woman whose special daughter has opened her eyes to the world in a new and wonderful way, this book will open yours too.
I'm reminded that when Jonny was a toddler and our family realized how different we were because he was in our lives, my son Matt, then 9 years old, said, "Wouldn't the world be a better place if every family had someone with Down syndrome?
Wouldn't it indeed?
This is a beautiful read because it's by a mother of a child with Down syndrome who also is a professional writer. And finally, what sets this book apart is that Amy is a Christian whose scriptural insights illuminate her experience of mothering Penny.
The title is from James 1:7: Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
So true.
Bethany House has promised 3 copies of Good and Perfect Gift to MommyLife readers. You don't have to have a child with Down syndrome to love this book. Please leave a comment for a drawing December 1.
Comments
I would love to read this book. My eyes have been so opened to the wonderful "gift" of that little extra chromasome from reading your blog. It seems that God is providing the rest of us with an example of pure and childlike love that we can only hope to emulate.
Posted by: Nana | November 22, 2011 8:48 PM
I would love to read a new book about the gift I received 6 1/2 years ago.
Posted by: ellen | November 23, 2011 3:09 AM
I would like a chance to read this book.
Posted by: Sarah | November 23, 2011 8:37 AM
I would love to give this to a friend who is pregnant with a child with the "gift"
Posted by: Maureen | November 23, 2011 9:47 AM
I would love to read this book. I have a little daughter pirouetting around the living room right now with the gift!
Posted by: Betty | November 23, 2011 4:04 PM
would love to read this!!!! yes yes yes!!! we have two of those gifts :)))
Posted by: Elizabeth | November 23, 2011 4:53 PM
Praying about adoption of a child with DS. Can't learn enough!
Posted by: Nora | November 23, 2011 11:24 PM
I would love to read this. My "gift" is out on a hike with his big brothers - they love him!
Posted by: Debbie S | November 24, 2011 12:02 PM
I would love this book. It sounds like just the kind of read that helps open and warm our hearts to all of the unexpected gifts and challenges in our lives.
Posted by: Genevieve | November 24, 2011 1:24 PM
I want to read this.
Posted by: Karen Lewis | November 24, 2011 4:17 PM
Have friends who recently had a child with downs. I would love to pass this along - after reading it first!
Posted by: Joy C | November 26, 2011 10:37 PM
I would love to have my heart finally catch God's understanding of all His gifts to us.
Posted by: tereza crump aka MyTreasuredCreations | November 27, 2011 3:53 PM
This sounds like a lovely book.
Posted by: dee | November 30, 2011 1:50 PM
Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks.
Posted by: Kathryn Judson | November 30, 2011 2:53 PM
I would love this, thanks!
Posted by: Jill | November 30, 2011 4:06 PM
Oh, wow. This sounds like a beautiful book, one I would love to read.
Posted by: Patty | November 30, 2011 5:26 PM
I would love this book.
Posted by: Addie | November 30, 2011 8:53 PM
This sounds like a beautiful read and I am in awe of families with down syndrome children. It's magical to me looking from the outside in.
Posted by: Tonya Roach | November 30, 2011 10:23 PM
The world is a better place because God blessed us with people with Down Syndrome (my nephew Ryan is a wonderful 23 year old young man). I would love to read this book.
Posted by: Cathey | November 30, 2011 10:34 PM
Would love this!
Posted by: Sara | December 1, 2011 8:15 AM
I hope I haven't missed this drawing. I'd love to read this book!
Posted by: Deb G | December 1, 2011 1:32 PM
