A Whisper of Peace
Merry Christmas, dear readers! Welcome back to our annual blog series spotlighting (over 60 again this year) new and recently-released Christmas reads! Only a couple of days left in this year’s series, so… snuggle in, grab your fave hot beverage and comfiest blanket, turn on some Christmas tunes and finish your bookish Christmas list!
A WHISPER OF PEACE: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology IV
AUTHORS: Eleanor Bertin, Lorna Seilstad, Sara Davison, Angela D. Meyer & Stacy Monson
GENRE: Inspirational Christmas Fiction collection
RELEASE DATE: October 19, 2022
PAGES: 316
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A Whisper of Peace is the latest Christmas anthology from the Mosaic Collection. Mosaic is a group of independent authors writing in various genres and styles, united in their desire to glorify God through their stories. This collection features characters all searching for peace in the midst of the chaos and challenges of life. Each story tackles difficult and painful issues, but, in the end, all offer the hope that can only be found in the central character of Christmas—Jesus Christ.
Stacy Monson
“With a gentle finger, she touched the tiny baby figurine. She wasn’t a loser, unloved, and abandoned. Jesus had indeed come for her as well.”
I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. Well, I did anyway. For years I’ve struggled to find a balance between the crass commercialization of the season and the real, life-changing reason we celebrate. There’s so much I love about it – the lights, the music, the food, the anticipation of family time and gift-giving. And there’s so much I dislike – the emphasis on Santa rather than the baby, the pressure to keep up, the tension of too much extended family time. When I realized I was starting to dread the season, I knew I had to change my focus. So while the world will continue to celebrate a secular Christmas, I now focus on and celebrate the baby who came to set me free. I appreciate the gift of family and friends (by setting limits for my sanity!). And I am thankful throughout the season for a God who has saved me through the life and death of Jesus.
In “Whispered Miracle,” Casey Younghans has lived a lonely life in foster care. Seemingly forgotten by the only family she has, her older brother, Jeff, she has no reason to believe there is a God who cares about her. With Jeff away in the military, Casey is sent to an adventure camp in the mountains to spend Christmas with a bunch of strangers. It’s just one more place where she won’t be wanted or accepted. What she doesn’t know is that her whispered prayers will be answered. Christmas at Outlook will change everything—her life, her heart, her future.
Sara Davison
“Pouring out his heart to a stranger would be crazy, though. He contemplated the man. Or it might be the sanest thing he’d done in a long time.”
In “A Single Spark of Light,” Tyrone Jones has recently been released from prison after serving six years for manslaughter and is struggling to resist being drawn back into his old life of gangs and violence. He believes God has abandoned him, and Ty doesn’t blame him one bit. Then he meets a stranger on a bridge one cold, snowy night a couple of weeks before Christmas. The man sends Ty on a quest that just might change his life—and his heart—forever.
Angela D. Meyer
I’ve felt it. In the middle of loss grieving my heart. A peace that didn’t make sense. A knowing that everything would be alright, no matter what it felt like. That’s what God does for us when we hope in Him in the middle of the difficulties. It’s like the sensation of walking out into a new fallen snow in the early morning hours when no one is about, and everything recedes except the stillness. No matter what waits for us elsewhere, there can be peace found in Him. Sometimes we just need to get quiet enough to experience it.
In “Reclaiming Tomorrow,” Josie is making strides to build a new life when an old threat resurfaces. Will she trust a new friend enough to let him teach her how to defend herself so that she can stand up to the man determined to destroy her future?
Eleanor Bertin
“I finally got it. Not only had Jesus come to live in this lousy world but He’d done so on purpose to be punished for the very things I had done last night…Now I saw how it affected me. I drank her words down in big gulps. They flowed into the parched crevices of my soul. They whispered peace to me…” ~Sue, in Christmas at the Crossroads
If the coming of the Prince of Peace into this world wasn’t reason enough for celebration, Christmas is extra special to me, personally. You see, it’s not only the birthday of Jesus, it’s my spiritual birthday as well. Like the girls in my story, I went through a rough patch of rebellion in my teens, deceiving and being deceived. And even though I liked those thrills of daring, inside I was at war against my conscience.
“Christmas at the Crossroads” is a story of how God uses the worst circumstances, like the dark, sinful world he sent His Son to die in, to bring about great good, saving His people from their sins. How thankful I am that just like Sue and Myra in my story, my friend and I were stopped in our wayward tracks. God used that shame in my life to disarm me and bring peace to my struggling soul.
Lorna Seilstad
“The Magic of Christmas”
Occupational therapist Shayna Winters will do anything to create some magic for her pediatric patients this Christmas. But when an accident on the gridiron lands Dante Gallo’s nephew in her care, she has to find a way to make her former boyfriend see that peace is more than an illusion.
Jesus came into this world silently, bringing the gift of peace to a hurting world. In the midst of the crazy, messy lives of the people in these stories, will they be able to hear His whisper of peace over the clamoring of their hearts this Christmas season?
Eleanor Bertin holds a college diploma in Communications and worked in agriculture journalism before leaving the workforce for thirty years of raising and home-educating a family of seven children. She writes to convey the ways that God’s grace pierces through the armour of even the hardest heart, softening and transforming people, both real and imagined, into true worshippers. Eleanor lives with her husband and youngest son, who has Down syndrome, amid the ongoing renovation of a century home in central Alberta where she reads, writes, sweeps up construction rubble and blogs about a sometimes-elusive contentment at jewelofcontentment.wordpress.com.
Lorna Seilstad has called Iowa home her whole life. She received her B.S. in education from Lubbock Christian University. After her first child was born, she stopped teaching and became a professional wiper. “I wiped noses, tears, skinned knees, baby’s bottoms, and countertops every day. But at naptime, I wrote.” Today, she writes historical and historical fiction with a generous dash of humor.
Angela D. Meyer writes fiction that showcases God’s ability to redeem and restore the brokenness in our lives. Angela currently lives in Nebraska, where she and her husband homeschooled and graduated both of their children. Angela is a part of the Mosaic Collection and writes stories that showcase God’s redemption and restoration in our brokenness. Angela enjoys sunrises and sunsets, the ocean when she gets a chance to visit, and hopes to ride in a hot air balloon someday.
Stacy Monson is the award-winning author of The Chain of Lakes series, Open Circle, and the new series My Father’s House with The Mosaic Collection. She loves nothing more than sharing her faith through writing. Her stories reveal an extraordinary God at work in ordinary life. A member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and Minnesota Christian Writers Guild (MCWG), she is the founder and past president of ACFW MN-NICE, and the Events Director for MCWG. Residing in the country outside the Twin Cities, Stacy is the wife of a juggling, unicycling retired physical education teacher, mom to two amazing kids and two wonderful in-law kids, and a very proud grandma of 5 (and counting) grands.
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What about you? What makes you want to read A Whisper of Peace by Sara Davison, Eleanor Bertin, Lorna Seilstad, Angela D. Meyer & Stacy Monson?
I would like to read A Whisper of Peace anthology by Sara Davison, Eleanor Bertin, Lorna Seilstad, Angela D. Meyer & Stacy Monson because it sounds like a charming Christmas anthology.
The stories sound wonderful.
They sound really great
I love everything about Christmas and they sound amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing. Merry Christmas. God bless you.
This is a wonderful variety of inspirational stories to convey the gifts of Christ’s birth.
Looks like a great collection.
captivating and wonderful.
Thanks so much for highlighting A Whisper of Peace on your blog, Meez Carrie!!
looks interesting
I love that I can experience different author styles and perspectives in one collection!
Seems like a book I would really enjoy.
Sounds like lovely book to read. Thanks for sharing.
I want to read this book because it is an inspirational book for this season
The title, promises to be uplifting and soothing. If there’s a time for a book such as this, it’s now.
A Whisper of peace sounds like a book I’ve been looking for!
Sounds like an incredible read.
The cover caught my eye and makes me want to read the book.
I like trying new-to-me authors!
Because we need Jesus in our lives more than ever .
Great collection!
I want to read this because of all the different characters and how their lives and outlooks change.
It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.