Blue Heart Blessed
by Susan Meissner
Published by Harvest House Publishers
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Review by Susan Palmer
Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue is a superstition most women know about on their wedding day. The something blue is what got Daisy Murien into her own business of selling secondhand wedding dresses. She has Father Laurent, a retired priest, bless a little blue heart she sews into the wedding dresses. Some dresses, like her own, have never been worn on the wedding day. Daisy was rejected by her fiancé ten days before they were to get married. She owns this business in hopes to be able to let go and sell her own dress. What she learns instead through Father Laurent is that God’s love is the only thing that will help her let go.
As Daisy’s family tries to get her out on blind dates, Daisy rejects the idea of being able to go out. It’s not until she meets Father Laurent’s son Ramsey, that she learns that each person copes differently to their own rejection. As Daisy struggles to learn that life isn’t wrapped around her, she begins to understand the love God has meant for her.
Susan Meissner’s story helps you connect with a very young woman who has not rejected the idea of romance–but the idea that it’s meant for her. Through the characters she has created in Father Laurent, his son Ramsey and grandson Liam, Daisy learns that not all heartaches are the same and that each person hurts in their own way. It’s through faith and love of God that each person can recover and regain their sense of well-being.
The story is very fast paced and hard to put down, with Daisy’s quirkiness and the wisdom of her alter ego Harriett, do you learn to enjoy the humor in Daisy’s life. The story will help you understand that sometimes we all need a little blue heart that blessed to be sewn not only into our own dresses, but to be sewn into our very lives.
Armchair Interviews says: Susan Meissner does it again.
Author’s Web site: http://www.SusanLMeissner.com