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\"Sandra<\/a><\/p>\n

My guest today is new Love Inspired Author Belle Calhoune. She shares a dark period in her life. She is offering a book giveaway so be sure to leave a comment. Here’s Belle:<\/span><\/p>\n

“One of the most difficult life passages<\/h2>\n

involves letting go of a loved one.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter whether we’re adults with our own children or teenagers struggling through adolescence.\u00a0 The loss of a parent feels as if we’ve been run over by a mack truck.\u00a0 It is a painful and devastating experience.<\/p>\n

When my mother received a crushing diagnosis<\/h2>\n

of terminal cancer she was a vital, energetic woman with no health problems.\u00a0 Married to my father for almost forty years, mother of five children and a dedicated physician, my mother was a force of nature. There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do.\u00a0 Yet in one fell swoop she had to face the fact that her life was slipping away from her.\u00a0 While I was busy sobbing my eyes out, my mother calmly listed all the things she was grateful for in her life.\u00a0 My father.\u00a0 Her children.\u00a0 A wonderful home.\u00a0 Her dream career.\u00a0 And friends.\u00a0 It was in this moment that I realized exactly who my mother was\u2014a strong, spiritual woman grateful for her blessings, even in her darkest hour.<\/p>\n

During the next nine months my family rallied around her.\u00a0 We cared for her, loved her, watched movies with her, rang in the New Year and made each other laugh.\u00a0 One of the most beautiful things I witnessed was the love and devotion of my father, who stood by her side and served as her caregiver each and every day.\u00a0\u00a0 And one of the most poignant things my mother was able to experience before she passed was my father dedicating himself to God in a church ceremony.<\/p>\n

Yet I struggled with the loss of my mother and my anger at God.<\/h2>\n

How could a woman as giving as my mother be taken from us so swiftly, so randomly? And why had He allowed it?\u00a0 I didn’t attend church, stopped writing and allowed anger into my heart.\u00a0 In the end, it was my five year old daughter who showed me that God was all around me, supporting me, loving me and nurturing me.\u00a0 How could I be angry when He’d given me so many blessing in my life?\u00a0 After all, He’d given me my wonderful mother and everything else I cherished.<\/p>\n

\"reunited\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To purchase, click here. Reunited with the Sheriff (Love Inspired)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Belle’s New Book<\/h2>\n

As authors, we inject a little bit of our own experiences into our works.\u00a0 My heroine, Cassidy Blake, returns to her hometown of West Falls, Texas in order to take care of her cancer stricken mother.\u00a0 Because she loves her mother dearly, Cassidy is willing to endure coming face to face with her past in order to support the woman she loves during a health crisis.”–Belle<\/p>\n

Stop by and visit Belle at:<\/p>\n

www.bellecalhoune.com<\/a>
\nAuthor Belle Calhoune on Facebook
\nwww.bellecalhoune.blogspot.com <\/a><\/p>\n

One of the main things I appreciate is that my guests are not afraid to share their real stories, the ones that cost them something to share. And my readers are similarly fearless. <\/span><\/p>\n

QUESTION: Have you lost anyone dear to you? How did you handle it? OR have you ever been angry with God? Why and how did this change? Or has it changed?<\/span><\/p>\n

Leave a comment and be entered into the drawing for Belle’s book–Lyn<\/p>\n

PS-The winner of my copy of BILLY GRAHAM & ME is Barbara Thompson<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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