Floy Timmerman

A Blanket Benediction: a Novel Floy Timmerman

The Hessemans have become a much loved family through the historical novel, The Picnickers. Readers question, "What happened to all of them? How did life treat them? The answer could be, "Quite well, thank you" but that is far too simple. Each Picnicker, though bountifully blessed, met and was led through countless life struggles. As transpires in real life, we do not know the outcome of the next chapter as the last closes, but faith, hope, and charity live on. While The Picnickers tracked a real but fictionalized family, A Blanket Benediction spins off perhaps the most illusory of The Picnickers' plot segments, becoming a work of absolute fiction. Still the Hesseman heart and soul persist. Once again, you are invited to accompany a northwesterly journey on which Callie follows a passion and then veers off into her own orbit. Genetics cast aside, she bears the banner of pioneer determination, curiosity, and adventure, supported by Clint, whose background provides an unlikely complement. As a team, they come to personify the triumph of the fruits of the Spirit over human frailty and failure. Soon to come Miracle Downs, third in a series by the same author, will bring to life a trial of the picnicker "faith that will not shrink" as Clint and Callie realize his life dream and fall in love with their challenging, yet gifted, special child.