God loves families

God loves families – and so do I. 

God created the family so a man and a woman could show their love and commitment to one another and as a safe place for children to grow up in.  Unfortunately this doesn’t always happen.  Quite a lot of marriages end in divorce.

The good news is though that 60 out of every hundred marriages survives to 20^th wedding anniversary. Why is this good news?  It means lots of children grow up with both their natural mum and dad which a lot of people say is the best thing for children.

But maybe your mum and dad aren’t married or maybe you live with just a mum or just a dad. A lot of people do. Did you know a quarter of all under 18’s have only one parent? 

Does this mean God doesn’t love you or doesn’t love you as much as those with two married parents?  NO!

God loves everyone just the same. 

However God loves to make families work.  In my first book Nick North: Blood Quest Nick, who after all comes from a single parent family, finds that the Shepherd loves him amazingly.  However because of things that have gone wrong in his family years ago, the Shepherd wants to use Nick to stop these problems so that Nick won’t end up in the same sort of trouble.

Nick has to fight dragons in the past to break a curse placed on his family and then he has to stop his natural dad, whom he had never met before, from committing a terrible crime.

In my second book Nick North: War Zone the Shepherd uses Nick to help Leone sort her family out.  Her dad is an angry and very unpleasant man. Leone hates him and just wants to leave home as soon as possible. Things start to change when her granddad gives her a book of letters written by her great grandfather from the First World War. Through these and some supernatural visits to the battlefields of the war, Nick and Leone find out what really happened 100 years ago. It was nothing like what her granddad thought.

The Shepherd then helps Nick and Leone discover what went wrong in her dad’s life.  In a dramatic incident on a car park roof Leone’s dad comes to his senses and realises what a terrible father he has been.  He and Leone plan to try and get on better.

You see God loves families and when they don’t work, well he loves to fix them as only he can.  You probably wont have dramatic things happen to help fix your problems but with the Shepherd’s help you can see even the most terrible families turn around.