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    I Can Only Imagine: The Rest of the Story
    I Can Only Imagine: The Rest of the Story
    I Can Only Imagine: The Rest of the Story
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    I Can Only Imagine: The Rest of the Story

    By Karen Kingsbury

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    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Baxter Family novels shares a short, inspiring story about her family and the importance of faith.

    I Can Only Imagine is the first e-short in Karen Kingsbury's The Rest of the Story series. In it, Karen shares personal anecdotes about herself and her family, highlighted by her relationship with her late brother Dave. With heartfelt grace, she describes Dave’s struggles with addiction and his troubled journey toward redemption. It’s a touching and intimate reminder that God is close to the brokenhearted, and that He calls each of us to love well, laugh often, and find true life in Jesus Christ.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781625391858
    I Can Only Imagine: The Rest of the Story
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    Karen Kingsbury

    Karen Kingsbury, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, is America’s favorite inspirational storyteller, with more than twenty-five million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development as major motion pictures. Her Baxter Family books have been developed into a TV series now available everywhere. Karen is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001 she and her husband, Don, adopted three boys from Haiti, doubling their family in a matter of months. Today the couple has joined the ranks of empty nesters, living in Tennessee near four of their adult children.

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    I Can Only Imagine - Karen Kingsbury

    I Can Only Imagine

    Karen Kingsbury

    Copyright

    I Can Only Imagine

    Copyright © 2012 by Karen Kingsbury

    Cover art to the electronic edition copyright © 2012 by Bondfire Books, LLC.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

    See full line of eBook originals at www.bondfirebooks.com.

    Author is represented by Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard St., Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.

    Electronic edition published 2012 by Bondfire Books LLC, Colorado.

    ISBN e-Pub edition: 978-0-7953-2602-8

    Contents

    eForeword

    I Can Only Imagine

    eForeword

    Every novelist is inspired by something or someone. We who write walk through life drink in ideas from every waking moment. We are inspired by real-life people and places, problems and plots. Then that single nugget of inspiration branches out a thousand different directions to become fiction.

    Sometimes I take those behind-the-scenes nuggets onto the stage with me. And always—as soon as I start telling the real stories—people listen with their hearts. Ten thousand people in one oversized living room, gripped by the truth that eventually turns into bestselling novels. Moved by the story behind the story.

    Along the way, God has used the real-life

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