Lauraine Snelling Saturday Morning

Saturday Morning

Lauraine Snelling

WaterBrook, Sep 2005, $13.99, 384 pp.

ISBN: 1578567882

In San Francisco, former hooker Hope Benson, runs the Casa de Jesus women's shelter, but knows her facility will fail state inspection unless a miracle occurs. Although she detests moving and giving up her thriving lavender line, Andy Taylor relocates to the Bay City when her spouse accepts a new job. At the same time Kansas City attorney Julia Collins is in town searching for her runaway teenage granddaughter. Finally, wealthy widow Clarice Van Dam is left with nothing when her spouse deserts her, taking all their possessions including their funds with him.

These four females meet in the Casa de Jesus parking lot, and forge the Girl Squad to help them while looking to God for divine assurance. The quartet work to try to save the shelter and each other, as a sisterly bond forms by being the women being there for one another and praying to the Lord to show them the way.

Though the amoral behavior of the males would lead to neutering them, the Girl Squad members are a delightful group who find solace and courage with one another, a common goal to save the shelter, and a strengthening of their belief in God in spite of the mundane odds against them. Each one of the women brings a different personality to the inspirational storyline. Together they blend quite well, although they are so different in background and temperament. Male neutering aside, SATURDAY MORNING is a fabulous upbeat tale about caring for others and how it leads to taking care of yourself.