You Are Called, You Are Chosen, You Are Loved
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Cynthia started the car. God didn’t seem to be answering her prayer for direction, so she put the car in drive and headed in the opposite direction from the one she had just told her mom. She headed east.
East was the place of her upbringing. Maybe there she could find some comfort. She had a lot of wonderful memories of growing up. There were painful ones too. She mused how memories, no matter of what time, seemed tinged with both good and bad.
Living in California now, she knew it would take at least five days to get anywhere close to her childhood home, and she was supposed to be back in three. “Well, I will figure out something,” she reasoned. She just wanted to go back.
Cynthia pulled onto Highway 80. It was the same highway she had taken when she moved west twenty-five years earlier. As she drove, her thoughts remained on her childhood. “Lord, am I just a simple-minded product of my upbringing?” she prayed out loud. “Or do I really believe in You? Are You there, Lord?”
A small demonic figure sitting in the back of Cynthia’s car gloated to his instructor, Sumana, “We’re doing such a fine job, a fine job. She’s coming home to us, home to us.”
The little demon suddenly got slapped hard in the head. “Shut up, you fool,” Sumana scolded. “We don’t have that kind of power. She belongs to the Enemy. Our job is just to make sure she feels unsure of it and certainly that she never lives out her belief.” Sumana was tiring of the ignorance of his apprentice, Hermes.
“So what’s the plan now, the plan now?” Hermes asked, undaunted by the slap and reprimand.
“We wait. As long as she sits in doubt, we will just wait.”
Sumana and Hermes settled back in the car.
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Devastated by the end of her twenty-year marriage, Cynthia Salmon feels confused, sad, and frustrated by the abandonment by both her husband and now seemingly God. Left questioning everything she is and believes, Cynthia decides to embark on a cross-country trip toward her childhood home and memories—both happy and painful. As Cynthia revisits her childhood in her mind, two demonic figures accompany her on her journey, determined to sway Cynthia to loyally follow their evil plan. Along the way, Cynthia meets Elizabeth, a young girl suffering from a different pain. As God uses Cynthia’s story to reveal His deep love for Elizabeth, each finds assurance that they are dearly loved daughters of the King. Yet it is this same encounter that will thrust both of them into a war, not of Earth but in the heavenly realms where the powers of darkness not only threaten the freedoms of their country but also their lives. In this Christian story, a woman searching for comfort after a devastating loss sets out on a spiritual journey where she discovers the absolute truth that she is indeed called, chosen, and unfailingly loved by God.
About the Author
>p>Patricia Behrens is a mother and grandmother of six. After spending years in the business world, she retired with one desire: to deeply sense God’s presence, know His unfailing love, and share that love with others. Her first novel is written especially for women with the hope that they may come to know the indescribable love of Jesus Christ and their unique purpose in life.