Suggested discussion questions for Daisy’s Decision by Hallee Bridgeman.

When asking ourselves how important the truth is to our Creator, we can look to the reason our Savoir said He was born. In the book of John chapter 18 and verse 37, Christ explains that for this reason He was born and for this reason He came into the world. The reason? To testify to the truth.

Our Lord often used fiction in the form of parables to illustrate very real truths. In the same way, we can minister to one another by the use of fictional characters and situations to help us reach logical, valid, cogent, and very sound conclusions about our real lives here on earth.

While the characters and situations in The Dixon Brothers Series are fictional, I pray that these extended parables can help readers come to a better understanding of truth. Please prayerfully consider the questions that follow, consult scripture, and pray upon your conclusions. May the Lord of the universe richly bless you.

At the beginning of the book, it’s apparent Daisy has recently made some sinful decisions. One of the things holding her back from accepting God’s grace and forgiveness is the shame she’ll feel when people find out what she did. She didn’t feel this way about her sin until it was going to be found out.

1. Do you think this is a normal reaction for people, to feel the weight and burden only when it’s known?

2. If so, shouldn’t we always feel that way, knowing the Holy Spirit is privy to all of our thoughts and actions all the time?

Daisy tells her cousin that she doesn’t want to tell Jason’s wife about her affair or the baby because she doesn’t want to risk Jason coming after the baby.

3. Do you think she should have given Jason more of an opportunity to accept his child?

4. Do you think she should have told Jason’s wife about her affair with Jason?

Daisy asks God to forgive her; however, the burden of shame still weighs heavily on her shoulders and overwhelms her emotionally.

5. Do you think her thoughts in the emergency room were a normal, human reaction? Or do you think they perpetuated the sin she’d already committed?

Jon counseled Ken that men could never understand the desperation women can feel as they face the public judgment stemming from an unwed pregnancy.

6. Do you think this is a valid assessment?

Ken reacts with strong emotion at the news that Daisy could have wished harm to her baby for even a moment.

7. Do you think that was fair of him?

8. How do you think you would feel or act or react in Daisy’s or Ken’s place?

Ken claims he loves Daisy and the baby she’s carrying. He believes he was made for Daisy and always meant to be Rosita’s father.

9. Do you think it’s possible for Ken to love Rosita with the same depth of emotion that Brad and Jon feel toward their natural daughters?

10. Is it possible to think that God always intended for Daisy to be pregnant when she and Ken met?

Daisy dreams she is going to die in childbirth. Ken patronizes her about her dreams, attributing them to the unpredictable hormones often associated with pregnancy.

11. Could this dream have been God preparing her for the complications she experienced?

12. Even though she survived, do you think all the preparations she made in advance of her labor and delivery were still necessary?

13. Do you think Ken should have taken her dream more seriously when she told him about it?

All three wives can identify their husbands at a glance, even in the company of their identical brothers.

14. Do you think this is just a flight of fancy typical of a fiction novel? Or do you think there is such a thing as a heart prepared for the spouse God intended for you?