Joy Comes in the Mourning: A "Novel" Approach to Raising Awareness of Lupus

List Price: $23.99
Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC (Dec. 2009)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-61566-111-4




I had a two-fold mission in mind when I began writing my debut novel, Joy Comes in the Mourning:

1. To raise awareness of a real and serious chronic autoimmune disease, and
2. To encourage readers that God has purpose behind, presence during, and preservation after EVERY storm that comes their way.

Dealing with the death of a loved one is never easy, no matter how old you are. But when you are a child, and the surviving parent chooses to express their grief by "checking out" and becoming emotionally unavailable, life is made that much harder.
Joy Comes in the Mourning focuses on Tonya Monroe, a young woman who lost her mother at the hands of a drunk driver when she was only 14 years-old. Tonya's tragedy was compounded by the revelation that a close family friend, Carolyn Wright, was responsible.
Tonya's father expressed his grief by drinking and becoming emotionally detached from her. Subsequently, she grew up believing that she didn't need anyone. It's not until Tonya is diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Eerythematosus that she realizes life is beyond her control.
Carolyn has problems of her own. She is faced with drama, drama, and more drama. She walks in from work one afternoon to find a female church member, who has been after her husband for years, "helping out" in the kitchen. She and Tonya have a knock-down drag-out at work. And she becomes the subject of scandal at church when her Friday night intercessory prayer meeting goes off course.
When Tonya's health rapidly begins to deteriorate, she feels that Carolyn is the only one she can turn to. But where does she find solace when, on the morning of her kidney biopsy, Carolyn feels the need to come clean about what really happened the night her mother was killed?
Well, you have to buy the book to find that out. However, know this: God's Word is true! ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD AND ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
I don't care what seems to be going wrong in your life. It's just right for you. Accept what God allows because He knows what HE's doing. If you TRUST and BELIEVE that the outcome will be in your best interest because it's to serve a purpose, God can turn your mourning into Joy...in spite of your circumstance!
On His Time, In His Name, For His Glory
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