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Sarah Hanks

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Sarah Hanks is a multi-award-winning author of split-time Christian fiction. Her background in teaching and children’s ministry prepared her for exercising her creativity as a writer, now her full -time job. She and her husband have ten children, a couple of whom seem to have inherited their mother’s love for playing with words and crafting stories. Though Sarah dreams of a cabin by the beach, the family lives jammed together in beautiful chaos near St. Louis, Missouri. She buys earplugs in bulk.
You can follow her on Facebook or Instagram @authorsarahhanks. Check out the freebie page of her website at www.sarah-hanks.com.
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	Mercy's Song (Mercy Series Book 2) 4.70 avg rating — 116 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Battle Worth Fighting (Sisters in Arms #1) 4.58 avg rating — 116 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mercy's Legacy (Mercy Series Book 3) 4.63 avg rating — 90 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Awakened to Life: A Pro-Life Inspirational Novel 4.81 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whatever It Takes (Sisters in Arms #3) 4.69 avg rating — 78 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drifting in and Out of Sleep 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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It Had to Be You (Christiansen Family, #2)

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“We must never run from the light. Truth is worth the cost.”
― Sarah Hanks, Every Voice Heard: Three Novellas About Church Hurt and Abuse

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“Her mother was like a gentle breeze, soothing all the places her father chafed.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

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“What is it that I’m facing? What shape or form will it take? How do I fight it, and what will it cost me? It’s a dark, foreboding presence hovering over me, and I’m without defenses.”
― Sarah Hanks, Fall Back and Find Me

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“Jesus came for all of this,” he finally breathed. “He came for all the hurt and sadness and He redeems it, He makes it new. He makes us new. The gospel is still true, Kellie. It never stops being true.”
― Heather Wood, Until We All Find Home

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“It’s so much easier to hate people from a distance, much harder when you get close enough to see your own reflection in their eyes.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Legacy

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“We got to worship Him through the pain. But you know that by now, don’t you? That we can’t try to skirt around all that hurt. We gotta walk straight into it and feel it all so God can heal it all.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Legacy

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“Pain is pain. Hurt hurts. It won’t hurt you any less by claiming you have more of it.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Song

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“That spark in me grew as I tried to put a name to what was filling up inside me. Hope. Maybe it was hope.”
― Sarah Hanks, Mercy's Song

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