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Heaven Has Blue Carpet by Sharon Niedzinski
When Niedzinski, a suburban Michigan housewife and mother of six, moved into a century-old country farmhouse, she naively ordered a flock of Columbia sheep to match her New England Countryside decorating theme. Thus began 16 years of indoctrination into the finer arts of sheep care that included breeding rams, flushing, and the snip,dip, and clip ritual. To her children's dismay, Niedzinski used the dinner hour to regale her family with the grittier details of shepherding, including cutting off newborns' tails, adopting "bummer" rejected lambs into her blue-carpeted home, and accepting that a sheep's destiny is the slaughterhouse. But this is a Christian living book, not a farmer's almanac. To that end, each chapter winsomely approaches the similarities between shepherding and its spiritual parallels found throughout the Bible, where a loving shepherd is needed to guide, protect, and shelter humanity. Niedzinski so beautifully depicts her foray into shepherding that readers might be tempted to order a flock for their own spiritual instruction.

Note by Sharon:
I received many letters of congratulations from the staff at Thomas Nelson Publishers for Publisher's Weekly Review! All praise goes to the Lord God Almighty!


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When suburbanite Sharon Niedzinski moved to the country with her family, she decided a flock of sheep would look picturesque in the nearby pasture. Enter a steep learning curve and hard, daily work to serve the flock. Yet the sheep remained oblivious to her existence: They wouldn't look her in the eye, ran away when she came into the pasture, and trampled her to get to the food she carried. At least caring for orphan lambs was a joy. If a book about sheep and lambs sounds too precious for your taste, have no fear. These informal sketches include enough straight talk about lambing and foot rot to add a heavy dose of reality. After reading Heaven Has Blue Carpet, I not only know a lot more about sheep, I also have a greater appreciation for how much my Shepherd cares for me.

Reviews by Sue Kline and Connie Willem