Song of Silence
May 3rd, 2016. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.Song of Silence
By Cynthia Ruchti
Music taught Lucy love and beauty. Could silence teach her hope?
Lucy and Charlie Tuttle agree on one thing: they’re committed to each other for life. Trouble is, neither of them expected life to look like this. While Charlie retired early, Lucy is devoted to a long-term career . . . until the day she has no choice.
Forced to retire from her position as music educator in a small Midwestern K-8 school, Lucy can only watch helplessly as the program her father started years ago disintegrates before her eyes. As the music fades and a chasm separates her from the passion of her heart, Lucy wonders if her faith’s song has gone silent, too. The musical score of her life seems to be missing all the notes.
When a simple misstep threatens to silence Lucy forever, a young boy and his soundless mother change the way she sees—and hears—everything.
ISLAND BREEZES
This book will take your heart on a journey. Is it better to lose your music or never to have had in in the first place?
Lucy Tuttle had her music taken from her twice. It was devastating each time.
Amazingly silence helped her find a new source of music. If one listens carefully, sometimes family drama can do that.
Thank you, Ms Ruchti, for showing us what can happen if w listen to the silence in our lives.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Cynthia Ruchti is the author of the critically acclaimed Where the Morning Glory Blooms and They Almost Always Come Home. After 33 years as writer/producer of the daily 15-minute radio broadcast, The Heartbeat of the Home, Cynthia served a two-year term as president of American Christian Fiction Writers and currently serves as ACFW’s Professional Relations Liaison. In addition to writing novels, devotionals, and magazine articles, she speaks for women’s events and writers’ conferences. Cynthia and her plot-tweaking husband live in Central Wisconsin, where she creates stories of Hope-that-glows-in-the-dark.