Author’s Notes
Greetings to each and everyone of you! Often times as we go through life, we have an idea of Christian living, but not really a zeal for it. In this piece, several of the characters experience situations that compel them to stumble their way back to Christ. With clear depictions of reality, we get a chance to see real people with real issues making the conscious decision to choose Jesus. Through broken homes, bad relationships, and terrible lifestyle choices, each character has to come to grips with the fact that there are some wounds that only God can heal.
The Dream Hanger covers the lives of three young females who each come from very different backgrounds, yet life has ironically brought them to the same place. As each character struggles to pick up the pieces of life, God’s purpose and plan for them becomes all the more real. By trashing their plans, they begin to pick up their dreams and live again.
Are you who you are because of what you are? Or are you what you are because of who you are? is a piece that deals with the lives of two young men, each thoroughly a victim of their own society. Growing up in the city streets, they each become products of what they see. Through a few bad decisions and wrong turns, they each find the path that God has for them on a road to discovering the meaning of life, friendship, and forgiveness.
Runaway Home is about the life of a young girl who has the misfortune of witnessing a terrible incident as a child. This incident spiritually scars her, and causes her to have a skewed outlook on life. As time wears on, it’s through the aftermath of this very incident that she will find ambition, life, and love, proving yet again that everything can be used for the glory of God. Even with all of her attempts to escape her pain, God brings her back to purpose.