| I wasn't sure. But as
I began to write, ordinary things added up to extraordinary. And with some
real-life adventure to add in, it turned out to be a pure pleasure to write.
Marlene flourished in a femininity of courage, love, and noble
sacrifice—qualities pronounced in God-focused womanhood. And she exhibited
that marvelous feminine ability to experience great reward in returned love. |
It's
Just Been Glorious
The Storied Life of Marlene Smelser
by Dale Smelser
hardback, 362 pages
I have no copies left to sell.
However, you can order the book
online from the
Florida College Bookstore.
- J.S.
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| Whatever
lessons are here, I have tried to let her actions, life, and words make her
point. Young women can see in Marlene's story a joy that is never going to
come from a secularism that recognizes little difference in the roles of
women and men. Her life may well encourage other women about the glories of
femininity and noble character. My hope is that her story might live on as
it is given on such occasions as graduations, marriages, and childbirth to
those whom the reader loves. Mothers and wives, including preachers'
wives, will undoubtedly find passages they identify with. But one need not
be married to relish the story.
If the book can help young women choose the excellent and beautiful—if
it can help people see what is so "glorious" in such things, as Marlene
saw—my efforts will be well justified. Indeed, they have already been
rewarded in merely recounting it all. —Dale |
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