{"id":135,"date":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","slug":"book-monday-if-tomorrow-never-comes-by-marlo-shalesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/book-monday-if-tomorrow-never-comes-by-marlo-shalesky","title":{"rendered":"Book Monday-If Tomorrow Never Comes by Marlo Shalesky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Now that Marlo has let us into her life, she shares more about her latest book.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If Tomorrow Never Comes By<\/span><br \/> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">They say you should reach for your  dreams.              <\/p>\n<p>This time, they\u2019re wrong\u2026 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Childhood sweethearts Kinna and Jimmy  Henley had simple dreams\u2014marriage, children, a house by the sea\u2026everything  they needed for happily ever after. What they didn\u2019t plan on was years  of infertility, stealing those dreams, crushing their hopes.  Now,  all that\u2019s left is the memory of young love, and the desperate need  for a child to erase the pain. Until\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Kinna rescues an elderly woman from the  sea, and the threads of the past, present, and future weave together  to reveal the wonder of one final hope. One final chance to follow not  their dreams, but God\u2019s.  Can they embrace the redemptive power  of love before it\u2019s too late? Or will their love be washed away like  the castles they once built upon the sand? The past whispers to the  present.  And the future shivers.  What if tomorrow never comes?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">Marlo lives with her husband and five  young children in a log home in Central California. When she\u2019s not changing diapers, doing  laundry, or writing books, Marlo loves sipping Starbucks white mochas,  reading the New Testament in Greek, and talking about finding the deep  places of God in the disappointments of life.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">What is the symbolism for the title  If Tomorrow Never Comes?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">The idea behind the title is that the  choices and decisions we make today dramatically impact our future,  our \u201ctomorrows,\u201d and not only ours but the tomorrows of others as  well.  Choosing to love, choosing to do right despite pain, disappointment,  and sorrow, allows tomorrow to come.  But choices made out of desperation,  fear, and clinging to our own desires can cut off the future God wants  for us.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">We don\u2019t know, we can\u2019t see, what  tomorrow holds.  So all we can do is do what\u2019s right now, love  now, trust now.  Because God sees the whole of our lives and weaves  all things together, even those hard and painful things, in a way that  will make a beautiful masterpiece in the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">So, really, the title means that if we  choose love today, if we choose sacrificial love, God will hold our  tomorrows in His hand.  That\u2019s what\u2019s at the heart of If  Tomorrow Never Comes . . .the choice to love, the choice to believe,  the choice to let go of our dreams in order to embrace His.  To  do it today, for the sake of all our tomorrows.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Marlo has let us into her life, she shares more about her latest book. If Tomorrow Never Comes By They say you should reach for your dreams. This time, they\u2019re wrong\u2026 Childhood sweethearts Kinna and Jimmy Henley had <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/book-monday-if-tomorrow-never-comes-by-marlo-shalesky\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Book Monday-If Tomorrow Never Comes by Marlo Shalesky - booksbylyncote.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/book-monday-if-tomorrow-never-comes-by-marlo-shalesky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Monday-If Tomorrow Never Comes by Marlo Shalesky - booksbylyncote.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Now that Marlo has let us into her life, she shares more about her latest book. 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