German – Eyes for My Heart- Augen fuer mein Herz

Was ist diese sonderbare Krankheit, die auf den Staub von der Farm reagiert und Vater so erschöpft? Diabetes hat Mutters Gesundheit schon beeinträchtigt. Ihre Sehkraft verschlimmert sich. Durch die Anleitung von ihren liebenden Eltern lernt die vierzehnjährige Ida Weaver die verblüffenden Situationen, die ihre Familile begegnet, zu akzeptieren. Jugendliche können durch diese Geschichte lernen, sich richtig gegenüber den Herausforderungen und Entscheidungen, die sie selber begegnen, zu verhalten.

Ida Weaver, and outdoor-loving, fourteen-year-old, is quite content on her family’s Indiana hog farm. Sure, farm life would be easier if the two brothers who had died in infancy were now able to help her father. But she would be the farmer!Then Father begins to wheeze. What is this strange disease that reacts to farm dusts and that secretly saps Father’s strength? And Mother? Diabetes has already undermined her health, but now her eyesight is growing worse. Ida rebels at the disappointments, decisions, and necessary changes that take place in the family. But through each experience, loving and godly parents are guiding Ida until, like them, she finds the eyes of [her] understanding be enlightened. This book will help middle teenagers and older youth to relate properly to the perplexing situations and choices that they themselves will face.