It's Just Been Glorious

by Dale Smelser

It's Just Been Glorious - The Storied Life of Marlene Smelser

FROM THE AUTHOR,
HER HUSBAND...

People who knew her kept saying, "You must write a book about Marlene." "Please write a book about Marlene."  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.  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

360 pages. Hardback.