Becky rocks a baby that rocked her world. Sixty years earlier, with her
fiancé Drew in the middle of the Korean Conflict, Ivy throws herself
into her work at a nursing home to keep her sanity and provide for the
child Drew doesn't know is coming. Ivy cares for Anna, an elderly
patient who taxes Ivy's listening ear until the day she suspects Anna's
tall tales are not the ramblings of dementia. They're fragments of
Anna's disjointed memories of a remarkable life. Finding a faint thread
of hope she can't resist tugging, Ivy records Anna's memoir, scribbling
furiously after hours to keep up with the woman's emotion-packed,
grace-hemmed stories. Is Ivy's answer buried in Anna's past? Becky, Ivy,
Anna--three women fight a tangled vine of deception in search of the
blossoming simplicity of truth.
If you would like to read the first chapter of When The Morning Glory Blooms, go HERE.
If you would like to read the first chapter of When The Morning Glory Blooms, go HERE.
Cynthia writes stories of hope that glows in the dark, merging her love
for storytelling with inextinguishable hope for inexpressible hurts.
Cynthia spends her days diving into words, worship, and wonder and celebrating 40 years of marriage, three grown children, and five outrageously adorable grandchildren. One of her greatest joys is helping other writers grow in their craft. To that end, she served as the assistant director and a faculty member of the Quad Cities Christian Writers Conference, has served as worship and devotions staff for the Write-to-Publish conference, and teaches at other conferences as opportunities arise. She speaks to women’s groups, at mother-daughter banquets, and for women’s refresher days and retreats. It is her delight to serve on her church’s worship team. Rather than “busy,” she likes the term “active.”
For 33 years, Cynthia wrote and produced the radio broadcast The Heartbeat of the Home. The scripted radio drama/devotional broadcast aired on as many as 50 radio stations and two cable/digital television stations over the years. Cynthia was the editor of the ministry’s Backyard Friends magazine, a twenty-page, twice annual publication that reached 5,000 homes, churches, and parachurch outreaches.
Cynthia spends her days diving into words, worship, and wonder and celebrating 40 years of marriage, three grown children, and five outrageously adorable grandchildren. One of her greatest joys is helping other writers grow in their craft. To that end, she served as the assistant director and a faculty member of the Quad Cities Christian Writers Conference, has served as worship and devotions staff for the Write-to-Publish conference, and teaches at other conferences as opportunities arise. She speaks to women’s groups, at mother-daughter banquets, and for women’s refresher days and retreats. It is her delight to serve on her church’s worship team. Rather than “busy,” she likes the term “active.”
For 33 years, Cynthia wrote and produced the radio broadcast The Heartbeat of the Home. The scripted radio drama/devotional broadcast aired on as many as 50 radio stations and two cable/digital television stations over the years. Cynthia was the editor of the ministry’s Backyard Friends magazine, a twenty-page, twice annual publication that reached 5,000 homes, churches, and parachurch outreaches.
I highly recommend this book!
