Böcker av Sharon Mondragón

"Fair Meadows Retirement Community might as well be a country club for most of the retirees enjoying the pool, golf course, and book clubs. But for the caregivers whose family members reside upstairs in the special Memory Care Unit, vacation is over. Comforting these caregivers is exactly why the Woolgatherers group has formed. They make prayer shawls to support those affected by the heartbreaking reality of not being recognized by a loved one-people like Sam Talbot, who has been barely existing since his wife moved into Memory Care. He finds that his life has lost all color and meaning without her. That's something the Woolgatherers can't bear to see. Flirtatious Jenny Alderman, cranky crocheter Edna O'Brian, kind Rose Harker, and the rest of the prayer shawl group weave him into the circle. Sam has no idea how he got tangled up with them, and he's no good at knitting. But when one member talks him into taking up his wife's old crochet hooks, he discovers that this one small gesture might just have the power to heal his life-or even save it. Full of Sharon Mondragâon's characteristic humor and heart, this book wrestles with the loneliness of being the forgotten spouse of a dementia patient, moving past the fear that the spouses often face into the love and compassion that can make all the difference"--

"The four knitters of the Heavenly Hugs Prayer Shawl Ministry are stuck . . . in a stagnant church, a comfortable mold of ministry, and the points of pain that hold each of them back. Until, that is, Father Pete shakes them up by insisting that they meet not at church but in public at the local mall (for heaven's sake) where anything can happen-this while the Lady's Chapel where they normally meet is painted. The church needs more than a face-lift, however. The congregation is dwindling to the point that the bishop has charged Father Pete with either reviving Hope of Glory or closing it by year's end"--