Listening- -is a skill that you need to develop over time with practice.

There is no such thing as a person who is too far away from God to receive salvation and forgiveness.

Uplifting and heart warming poetry for Christians and others to read for encouragement and enjoyment. Highest achievement: #263 in Spiritual

Grace Stonebrook is a 16 year old girl who is juggling her sophomore year in high school while being apart of the girls soccer team, having a part-time job at a local cafe, some unexpected romance, and most importantly, her Christian faith. Genres: Christianity and Romance. *Cover picture is not mine* *Any names or places are coincidental*

Rylyn Delson's life has been pretty predictable for the past eight years after her mother's death. She's gotten used to her dad being "clingy". But when life takes a turn for the unexpected, Rylyn has to face the reality of the world alone, with no one who understands. God understands, doesn't He? What good is He planning to come out of this anyway? Meanwhile David Ark and his wife, Mirissa, are just a Christian couple adjusting to their new lives in the town of Riverside. Getting to know the teens firsthand as a Youth Minister, he discovers the shy, only child girl with a hard past. Soon after gravitating toward her, tragedy strikes her hard. When they take her in, both of them go through hard times themselves. But God's ways are higher than our's, right? Told from the two perspectives that resemble a father-daughter relationship, they not only discover hidden truths of the struggles but also try to learn to take on unwavering faith. {Started: September 2014 Finished: February 2015} (Picture credit to legit-faith.com)

Fifteen years ago on her first birthday, Princess Ashlyn of the Virgin Isles went missing. Every year, the royal family has a ball in her honor hoping to find her. Her twin sister, Princess Amelia, sees a girl at the ball. She has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on her nose, which are all the physical traits Amelia and Ashlyn share. The girl looks very poor because her dress was very old looking and drab. Fifteen years ago on her first birthday, Bailey was found on the doorstep of the kingdom's dressmaker. For those years, she worked as a slave to the dressmaker and her daughters. She befriends a stableboy from the neighboring kingdom. When she goes out to the ball, she realizes how much she looks like Princess Amelia as the princess walks closer and closer... Could this be the lost Princess Ashlyn that the kingdom had been searching for after fifteen years?

Clara's problems can be summed up in two words: responsibility and family. After the loss of her mother, life for Clara was never the same. Although she loves her three siblings and tries to be the best sister and lady she can, the weight on her shoulders grows the more she learns and the more she has to know. When her father remarries to a secretive widow, Clara's responsibilities triple overnight. Through no fault of her own, Clara is thrown into an adventure she never counted on-- one of magic, tragedy, and romance. Through palace ballrooms, enchanted forests, and encounters with a handsome stranger she really shouldn't care for, Clara soon realizes that the only way to help her family and fix the problem is to do it herself. The only trouble is that she doesn't know how. A Cinderella Retelling. ----- Cover design made by solidarity_! First draft! *featured by Once Upon A Time as of 9/24/2015*

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Meet Ruby Wentworth. She's wild, confident and crazy. Let's not forget that she's the daughter of the town's ex gang member, Jake Melvin. When her parents are kidnapped, Ruby Wentworth has no other choice but to build forces with her dysfunctional family to try and rescue them. After all, it is a matter of life and death. Her parents blood can't be on her hands. The third book to His Mission & His Miracle All Rights Reserved. Please do not copy or reproduce any of the text in this story.

Hunter, a street kid turned FBI agent, is ordered to befriend Calvin Black. But as they grow closer, she realizes Calvin cares more about her than the FBI. Hunter Ashley was taken off the streets as a teen and brought into a highly secret FBI program that's turned her into a full-fledged agent. She is assigned, alongside the brooding agent Micah, to befriend Calvin Black, the son of the notorious Christopher Black. Hunter does her best to hide her survival training inside a typical high school, only she's developing feelings for Calvin, and it looks like Micah is starting to crush on her. In a world where a single mistake can prove fatal, Hunter has to figure out who she can trust, or she'll end up back on the streets. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]