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Boomerang Blessings
What began as a mission to provide a home for three Haitian orphans is blessing the life of bestselling author Karen Kingsbury—and millions of her readers.
by Laura Christianson
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"Please Mommy, can I vacuum?"
Those words would be magical to any mother. But for bestselling author, Karen Kingsbury, they represent a dream come true.
Five years ago, Karen and her husband, Don, doubled the number of children in their family when they adopted three young boys from Haiti. E. J., Sean, and Josh (then ages 5, 6, and 6), had never experienced the wonders of a machine with "innards that make it go," and were fascinated by the vacuum cleaner.
"We set out to bless our new sons," Karen recalls, "but it became such a blessing to us to see them get so excited about something we take for granted—a machine that sucks up dirt."
In the same manner, Karen sets out to bless others through the books she writes and ends up being blessed in return. She shares a special relationship with her readers, receiving over 500 letters weekly. A reader from Illinois wrote, "When I finish one of Karen's books, I not only feel connected to the characters and the events, but that I have walked in the presence of Christ and that He has spoken mightily to me."
"It's that friendship with the reader and the ministry of wanting to get to know them that inspires many of my stories."—Karen Kingsbury
Karen's novels have encouraged readers to rebuild broken marriages, delivered them from depression, and spurred them to seek God's forgiveness. Similar to the boomerang blessing she experienced with her Haitian sons, their testimonies continue to bless Karen. "It's that friendship with the reader and the ministry of wanting to get to know them—of really caring about them as people—that inspires many of my stories," she explains.
Life-changing Fiction™
So many readers have expressed the ways in which Karen's books touch their lives that she trademarked the phrase, Life-Changing Fiction™. Her Redemption Series won the 2005 Retailer's Choice award for Inspirational Fiction Series, and Ocean's Apart won Christian fiction's most prestigious honor: the 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award.
Karen's 29 emotion-charged novels, which have sold 4 million copies and consistently top the Christian bestseller lists, tackle themes "common to our human experience": depression, drunk driving, anger toward God, rebellious kids, suicide, infidelity.
And, of course, adoption, which has made such an impact on her family that Karen feels compelled to write about it. "I tell myself: Be careful; you can't have adoption in everything," she admits, laughing. One of her most recent novels, Like Dandelion Dust, features a couple who adopt a child and five years later are devastated when their son's birth father surfaces and wants custody.
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