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Finding Easter Hope When You’re Flatlined by Life
Special thanks to my friend and fellow blogger Christi Perry of LearningToBeFearless.org for sharing here today. I hope her heartfelt story and challenge encourages you. Guest post by Christi Perry I stood in a dark room side by side with my sister and two of my friends. I was unaware of what they were doing as my eyes were closed. The thing that captivated me was the bass drum. The music was so loud it vibrated my body— more importantly, my heart. As I was driving home, several weeks ago, the same thing happened as I listened to a song. I was captivated with the bass drum. I finally had…
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Revolutionary Love
Love perseveres in spite of obstacles. Love gives without any guarantee of receiving. Love sacrifices until it hurts and then sacrifices some more. If I told you those themes are part of my latest novel, you might guess I’m a romance writer, right? Well, they are, but guess again. The Revolutionary is a dystopia. Wait. Dystopia? You mean one of those futuristic novels so dark they make the problems of our own world look like a walk in the park? Yes and no. Though dystopian novels have certain bleak characteristics, I think that setting paints the perfect contrast to the hope characters are fighting (and sometimes dying) to gain. How…
