Books like Healing Sarah's heart by Tammy Shuttlesworth

After years in a disappointing childless marriage, and now widowed at only twenty-six, Amish midwife Sarah Mast moves to Pleasant Valley for a fresh start. But unpleasant surprises beset Sarah when she joins her aging aunt’s dwindling midwife practice. Signs of her aunt’s decline suggest that she may no longer be capable of the rigorous demands of her work. With Sarah’s last dollar now invested in the birthing center, can she help her aunt face the truth and run the center alone? Aaron Miller, Sarah’s neighbor, counts himself among the skeptics until he witnesses the dedication and love she has for her patients. But when an English doctor files a complaint against Sarah, Aaron’s misgivings resurface—just as his own sister faces a birthing crisis. In the midst of such tribulations, Sarah prays for the strength to defend her practice, care for her patients, and win the hearts of the community she has grown to love.

Sarah, an older woman burdened by past mistakes, must use the power of her songs to touch a troubled young woman before Christmas ends, hoping the melody of "Sarah's Song" sparks two miracles.

This is a memoir of Sarah Carrington. Born and raised in a religious community, Sarah knew nothing about the outside world. Everything she ate, wore, read, and did was governed by the beliefs of her community. A community she grew to call a cult. Sarah spent most of her free time as a child in nature with her survival-enthusiast parents. She learned to survive and thrive in all seasons, with few supplies. Then her father died in a tragic accident. As adolescence changed her body, it also changed the way some men treated her. At thirteen, needing to escape she left the commune. Woefully unprepared, with minimal education and no believable work skills, she teetered on the brink of homelessness. Her naivety drew her into a world of sex and drugs, without the rock and roll. Despite enduring traumas and indignities, she became a sexually confident woman as she searched for a place to belong. By age twenty-three, Sarah became an orphan, pregnant, a stepmother, and a guardian to her siblings. But the world wasn't done with her yet.

During the Civil War, Sarah MacKenzie dedicates herself to the abolition of slavery and the defense of mill workers, refusing marriage until love with political ally Philip Calvert unexpectedly challenges her convictions.

Illustrates how the author struggled but ultimately found gifts in the grief of losing her twenty-one year old son in a drowning accident. She and Bryan experienced difficult times together, made significant changes along the way and then faced one of life's greatest catastrophes.

Will Davis invites readers into a Christian view of living simply and contently, offering reflections on faith, humility, and the pursuit of joy without excess in a contemporary life.