Books : The Winter Seeking
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by: Vinita Hampton Wright
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781578568277
ISBN: 1578568277
Label: WaterBrook Press
Manufacturer: WaterBrook Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: October 21, 2003
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Sales Rank: 957828
Studio: WaterBrook Press
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Product Description:
Share the Journey to the Heart of the Manger.
Twenty-two-year-old Mary Georgiana Reese faces a gauntlet of pain and loss: her parents’ divorce and her dad’s remarriage, her mother’s battle with cancer, and her own recent breakup. Amidst such turmoil, she can’t imagine facing Christmas with her mom’s family in Atlanta. Then she is confronted with one more unnerving shift: her mother’s reconnection with the Christian faith of her youth.
Though Mary Georgiana has little use for religion, she attempts for her mother’s sake to understand this spiritual reawakening. In the process, she comes face to face with another Mary: a virgin heavy with child, making her own uncertain journey through circumstances that bring both fear and hope. As their two stories intertwine, each young woman travels through a season of pain and joy, with surprising results. Their dual journey of winter seeking, centered on the Christ child, invites you to an experience of the Nativity unlike any other.
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Rating:  - A pleasant surprise
I was interested in this book because it was Christmas-themed. I liked it because it was so different than anything I've read before. I had never heard of the type of Christian journaling that Mary Georgiana was led to (I never thought of what I would ask any Bible figures), and while I don't believe I have the biblical knowledge to take such a journey, I found Mary's journal enlightening. There is a perspective on the symbolism of the gift of myrrh that had never been presented to me, even in ... Read More
Rating:  - Christian Book Previews
In The Winter Seeking, Vinita Hampton Wright presents the story of Mary Georgiana, known to most as Jana, a college student searching for something, only she doesn?t know what. Her parents are divorced, her father remarried, her mother struggling with cancer, and Jana must deal with the pain of her own recent break-up as she spends Christmas with her mother and aunt. On top of everything, her mother has returned to her childhood faith.
When a therapist at her aunt?s church suggests journaling ... Read More
Rating: - A Refreshing and Well-Written Story
Sometimes delightful gifts come in small packages. Sometimes that delight is found in a short novel that one can read in one or two evenings, from first-page storm to last-page resolution.
For Advent inspiration or a Christmas gift, Vinita Hampton Wright's new seasonal novella fills the bill. After the opening Colorado blizzard that maroons "postcollege, prejob" Jana, the book's wintry scene has less to do with cold weather --- most of the December action taking place in balmy Atlanta --- than ... Read More
Rating: - 4 1/2 Stars...Comfort and Hope
As Christmas neared, I decided it was time for a holiday novella. Grisham's "Skipping Christmas" was a humorous escape last year, but this book looked a bit more serious.
"The Winter Seeking" is a concise and wonderfully rendered tale of a woman dealing with many of the emotions we confront during the Christmas season. She struggles with her parents' divorce and her mother's illness. She also wrestles with her own issues of faith. When, at the suggestion of another young lady, she decides to ... Read More
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