An inspirational memoir

Love a Boll Weevil: and Other Lessons God Taught Me is an inspirational memoir sampling vignettes that share the interaction of Bonnye Matthews with God for eight decades. Once she heard He was holy and she understood the definition of that word, she was hooked. She sought Him to learn more about Him. She savored every bit of information she could learn about Him.

Her spiritual mentor was her great aunt Katy with whom she and her mom lived. Her dad was finishing up in Europe after World War II. From her aunt, Bonnye learned about Jesus and why He is important, the old Bible Stories, the prayer to say before bedtime, the parts of the church, hymns for children, and the responses to the Westminster Catechism for Children. When Katy would go to church in the evening, Bonnye asked to accompany her. She would appear to entertain herself quietly off to the side of the sanctuary.

What she was doing was talking with God. She was one of His lambs. As He puts it, “My sheep hear my voice.” She heard.
Interestingly, no one knew for some time that she did hear. When her mother learned, her talks with God became forbidden, though she continued on with the Lord in disobedience but rightdoing. She loved Him. He was unlike anyone she’d ever known. His love was the best thing she’d known from the time she was three.

This book is the story of that best thing.

About Bonnye Matthews

Bonnye Matthews moved to Alaska to retire in the clean air of a beautiful place she’d come to love in 2005. Fiction writing had never crossed her mind until she took a class at Mat-Su College on Alaska History and became fascinated with the first Americans. Matthews wrote a five-book novel series and followed that with a three-volume novella series with a focus on specific archaeological sites. She wrapped up that set of books with her peopling of the Americas paradigm in 2018. Bonnye next turned to dinosaurs and completed Arctic Dinosaurs of Alaska, a middle-grade novel chock full of multidisciplinary learning opportunities in 2022.

Bonnye's newest book details her greatest joy in life: her long-term deep and abiding love and worship of God. Bonnye’s life is one where happiness and joy abound. From early childhood, she learned what Solomon wrote about in Ecclesiastes in the Bible: work is the source of joy. Whether she works to learn something or communicate with others, her motto has been two words her great-aunt Katy Bradley wrote on her soul: beyond beyond. If giving 80% were the basic standard, giving 100% might mean going beyond. Bonnye would give 120%. It’s where joy is found, she’d explain.