Connection
Connection. It’s all about connection...
How connected—truly connected—do you feel in our fast-paced, results-driven, high technology, digital age? An old friend recently reminded me I’m not the only one who feels that tug in my heart, that longing for a deeper, more authentic connection with others...
A Hero Dreams follows a young boy’s search for connection in a deeply divided and all-too-often violent world...
At age 8, after the sudden death of his father, Ricky Williamson feels lost—hopelessly lost—and disconnected from everyone and everything. His world has become unrecognizable—a dark and hostile wasteland inhabited only by bittersweet memories and ghosts of the past. He wants to reach out to others—to his grieving, alcoholic mother, to his charismatic and athletically gifted brother Danny—but he doesn’t know how. Most of all, he wants to reach out to his beloved dad, but that's no longer possible...or is it?
Two years later, Ricky’s mother sends him to a New England summer camp where he learns the hard way that “honor” is the watchword and bullying is considered normal. After a traumatic incident at the pond, a mysterious voice assures him everything will be okay, but first he must take a leap of faith and cross a threshold into another world—a world where anything is possible...But can the voice be trusted?
What about you? Can you trust that voice...the one in your heart that longs for deeper, more authentic connections with others? Are you ready to take a leap of faith into another world?
A Hero Dreams
A Hero Dreams Website
How connected—truly connected—do you feel in our fast-paced, results-driven, high technology, digital age? An old friend recently reminded me I’m not the only one who feels that tug in my heart, that longing for a deeper, more authentic connection with others...
A Hero Dreams follows a young boy’s search for connection in a deeply divided and all-too-often violent world...
At age 8, after the sudden death of his father, Ricky Williamson feels lost—hopelessly lost—and disconnected from everyone and everything. His world has become unrecognizable—a dark and hostile wasteland inhabited only by bittersweet memories and ghosts of the past. He wants to reach out to others—to his grieving, alcoholic mother, to his charismatic and athletically gifted brother Danny—but he doesn’t know how. Most of all, he wants to reach out to his beloved dad, but that's no longer possible...or is it?
Two years later, Ricky’s mother sends him to a New England summer camp where he learns the hard way that “honor” is the watchword and bullying is considered normal. After a traumatic incident at the pond, a mysterious voice assures him everything will be okay, but first he must take a leap of faith and cross a threshold into another world—a world where anything is possible...But can the voice be trusted?
What about you? Can you trust that voice...the one in your heart that longs for deeper, more authentic connections with others? Are you ready to take a leap of faith into another world?
A Hero Dreams
A Hero Dreams Website
Published on July 22, 2018 13:45
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belonging, bullying, connect, connection, courage, faith, fear, grief, heart, hope, leap-of-faith, loss, possibility, threshold, violence
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