#hope

Read the first three chapters of the first book in the series, Emily's Cat Mysteries. It is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of loss, companionship, grief, and hope with a dead body thrown in. Emily has always wanted a cat, but her sister Ruth is allergic to them. When Emily finally has a home, and the pandemic arrives, she hopes to stave off the loneliness of working from home with a kitten. Jeffrey is nearly two years old and has lived most of his life in shelter cages. Because he is solid black, he was never adopted as a kitten. 

Is your life messy and a feels like a giant puzzle ready to unravel at any minute. Maybe you just want to be known to someone. Do you realize everyone is flawed, scarred and a beautiful mess? Do you realize there are a lot of people out there who believe their life is a puzzle getting ready to unravel? Do you realize our mess could reveal a beautiful surprise to us? Let's not wait another minute to unwrap our surprise. Let's not let it stay a mystery any longer. This book will reveal the beauty of an ordinary life. You will begin to understand yourself.

Helena "Harvard" Schmitt could not leave her life on the mountain soon enough. A life of academic rigor at Harvard was made possible by her extraordinary athletic gift: running. Thor Himmel was the Harvard equivalent of a movie star: attractive, intelligent, and unattainable. As Helena and Thor run from their demons, their paths inevitably and abruptly cross far from where they ever imagined.

Do you know that the Lord our God wants to talk to you more than you to Him? And would you like to know that God is real? That God is a person? It's all true. When all appears hopeless, God will indeed show up. He will . . . again and again. For Jan, this meant getting hit by a semi-truck to turn her life around. And once she stepped out in faith to follow what Jesus had for her, out of the ashes He breathed life. And just when everything began to turn around, more trials came. But what was God's response? I can use that. The truth is, He uses everything for good.

Life for Autumn Toelle-Jackson started out on a happy and ordinary timeline. When she entered her thirties, however, tragedy made up for lost time. Over the span of a few short years, she endured several miscarriages and the loss of her husband, a dear cousin, and child.