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A Thing Devoted
A Thing Devoted chronicles two years in the life of a Christian family devastated by adultery and divorce.
Three, adopted, multi-racial children, struggle with the question of God’s seeming indifference to their pain. Ten year old Abster, a tiny spy in the house of loss and confusion, keeps a daily record of her observations.
“If you attend church weekly, and on time, are attentive in Sunday school, get full immersion baptism, tithe more than ten per cent, volunteer in the nursery, pray for missions, and really, truly believe in God, shouldn’t you be protected? Shouldn’t He keep terrible things from happening to you? I understand my obligations to Jesus, but what are His, to me?”
This intimate story of one family's journey through fire, considers the purpose of suffering, its defining nature, and ultimately its life giving power.
Three, adopted, multi-racial children, struggle with the question of God’s seeming indifference to their pain. Ten year old Abster, a tiny spy in the house of loss and confusion, keeps a daily record of her observations.
“If you attend church weekly, and on time, are attentive in Sunday school, get full immersion baptism, tithe more than ten per cent, volunteer in the nursery, pray for missions, and really, truly believe in God, shouldn’t you be protected? Shouldn’t He keep terrible things from happening to you? I understand my obligations to Jesus, but what are His, to me?”
This intimate story of one family's journey through fire, considers the purpose of suffering, its defining nature, and ultimately its life giving power.
195 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 14, 2012
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About the author
Lotis Key
2 books2 followersLotis Melisande Key (SAG/AFTRA) has lived a life of wide travel and curious variety. She’s raised horses in the Australian outback, skied the Alps, run tours through a tropical jungle, bought & sold antiquities. She’s been a restaurateur, a breeder of show cats, a third-world church planter. She’s worked in an orphanage and run a ministry for homeless children.
After a professional theater début at the age of twelve, she subsequently starred in over seventy five feature films for the Asian market. She’s also hosted numerous television and radio shows. Upon settling in the United States, she signed with Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis based talent agencies, expanding into American on-camera and voice over narration, industrial videos, trade shows, professional theater, television and radio commercials.
These days she is to be found accompanying her foster son, elite GM Wesley So, to chess games around the globe.
Lotis is passionate about everything she does. Her written work focuses on the mystery of God and His incomprehensible love for the unattractive, wayward parts, of His otherwise perfect, creation
After a professional theater début at the age of twelve, she subsequently starred in over seventy five feature films for the Asian market. She’s also hosted numerous television and radio shows. Upon settling in the United States, she signed with Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis based talent agencies, expanding into American on-camera and voice over narration, industrial videos, trade shows, professional theater, television and radio commercials.
These days she is to be found accompanying her foster son, elite GM Wesley So, to chess games around the globe.
Lotis is passionate about everything she does. Her written work focuses on the mystery of God and His incomprehensible love for the unattractive, wayward parts, of His otherwise perfect, creation
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