Sunlight through Dusty Windows: The Dorcas Smucker Reader

Dorcas' writing is light and profound, simple and wise, funny yet serious. I laugh as I read and my family looks at me in surprise. I pause to ponder what I just read. And I binge read, even though she says in the foreword that these essays aren’t meant to be devoured in one sitting.

Honest, heartfelt writings by a woman living a real family life. Makes me like her and her family very much.

Loved the short essays on faith and life. Read it through one essay at a time. Thank you for sharing your life through faith!!

I have all the single books that are within this one. It's nice to have any and all of Dorcas' books. Any and all who are female will be able to relate. She's is honest. Through trials, tribulations, Joys and sorrows, a woman's heart revealed....and relates.

Loved the concepts. Loved the stories. Loved the people.Entertaining. Uplifting. Encouraging. Engaging.Very recommendable

I am so excited to find Dorcas's book today on Amazon. I have read many of her newspaper articles in the Eugene Register Guard and always loved her humor, good teachings, and her humility. I know I will love her book. If you have not read any of her work, you have missed out. I highly recommend anything Dorcas writes. You will be a happier and perhaps better person.

Loved the style of writing! also liked the three books in one since I only recently discovered Dorcas's books.

I laughed and cried throughout the book. I’d like to read anymore writings by Dorcas Smucker.

I enjoyed this a lot. The author is a good storyteller and has a gift for bringing out the funny side in things that probably weren't funny at the time - like her niece opening a container of worms at a stop while driving across country (seriously!). It also has a lot of depth and makes a lot of serious points about having good priorities and doing the right thing without oversimplifying, moralising in a boring way or being didactic: for example, she writes somewhere about the difficulties of deciding between homemade and shop-brought, partly in the light of time-efficiency vs. having the family work together on producing the food. She writes very convincingly about the difficult side of Christian faith, for example, in the context of knowing a family who lost all their five children in the same car accident, and she gives an incredibly three-dimensional picture of stay-at-home motherhood, in the context of younger teenagers as well as pre-school and primary age.I'd particularly recommend this book to anyone considering being a stay-at-home mum (or dad), or wanting to understand better why a friend or family member has chosen it or wants to choose it, and to people trying to make sense of Christian faith in difficult circumstances, but in general, I found it fun and edifying and it is worth a read.