Being Brave Enough to Choose to Trust (and a Giveaway)
@bethvogt
The Best We’ve Been, the third book in my Thatcher Sisters series, is a story about what happens when you lose control of your life.
The book releases today, during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. A time when it seems as if each one of us — no matter where we live, no matter our occupation or vocation, or where we are on our faith journey, or our cultural background — is struggling to maintain control of our lives.
We want to find some sense of the way things were before the terms “COVID-19” and “shelter-in-place” and “social distancing” became part of our day-to-day conversations.
Life before all this? It’s getting lost in the midst of schooling our children at home and “Zooming” to connect with co-workers and friends and family and wearing masks while we shop for groceries and deciding if today is the day we’re up to listening to the news, much less trying to decipher it.
We hear people say there’s a new normal coming as certain states start opening back up — there’s another new phrase for you — but we don’t know when normalcy will arrive, much less what it will demand of us.
Losing control of our lives is hard. Life before COVID-19 wasn’t perfect. We woke up to daily disappointments and challenges. But for the most part, we knew what to expect. Our personal battles? Familiar. The global battles? Familiar.
In The Best We’ve Been, my heroine, Johanna, has always relied on herself. She managed her life and survived any disappointments on her own. But when she realizes all the what’s-happening-here circumstances have spun out of her control, Johanna must decide who to trust. And trust is a frightening choice when you’ve been a loner most of your life.
Choosing to trust is an act of surrendering control too, isn’t it? We’re risking our heart with someone else by confiding in them. Relying on them. Hoping they will be there for us when we need them.
Trust is scary, but it’s the only way to have a worthwhile relationship with someone else. A real relationship. And now, more than ever, we need to choose to trust one another.
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I’m celebrating the release of The Best We’ve Been with a giveaway. You could win the Grand Prize, which includes a one-of-a-kind book wreath and a custom designed trust bracelet. Two winners will receive an e-book collection of the Thatcher Sisters Series.
