Hanna
Hanna asked Sarah Sundin:

Do you feel like God has blessed you with not only a writing ability and talent, but because of your grandfather and great-uncle's experience?

Sarah Sundin That's so sweet of you! I believe God uses everything in our lives for His purposes if we allow Him. The talents and personalities He gives us at birth, our family circumstances (good and bad), our personal choices (good and bad), and life events (good and bad). So yes, I've been blessed by these family stories and by my grandparents' examples of integrity, hard work, and good humor in bad circumstances. My writing has been blessed by having parents who loved books, a loving home, the privilege of an education, and the joy of falling in love with a good man. But my writing has also been blessed by my experiences with rejection, sin, loss, shame, loneliness, and worry for faraway loved ones. God can take every part of our lives and turn it into a blessing by using it to bless others. And I can't tell you what a joy that is.

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