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GOD CAME RUNNING
A novel about the mystery of God's love.
SYNOPSIS
God Came Running is a love story told on two roads at once.
On a mountain shrouded in mist, a young woman named Jasmine is hunted by the voice that has haunted her all her life. In Jerusalem, two thousand years earlier, a carpenter carries a cross through a city that has already decided who He is. Between them stand angels and devils, a library that remembers, and a forest that grows where promises take root.
Jasmine has one calling: write the story she was made for. The darkness has one goal: stop her before the third dawn. As the storm gathers, a scribe lays down his quill for a sword, a guardian remembers why he chose mercy over might, and a broken girl learns to love God through silence.
Cross and present tense, courtroom and underworld, laughter around a village table and the hush before “It is finished”—this is the tale of a Father who will not quit on the lost, and the love that turns ruins into altars.
For readers of The Shack, The Book Thief, and The Green Mile, God Came Running is a luminous, cinematic journey about trauma, trust, calling, and the Love that always finds a way home.
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ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BOOK
Sketches found inside the novel.
What happens when an artist writes a novel? You guessed it – a book full of illustrations. Here are just a few of the artworks which can be found in the pages of the novel.
The sketches below relate to Jesus' side of the story – set in 30AD Jerusalem.
PAINTINGS DEPICTING THE STORY
Artworks inspired by the novel.
With the novel complete, we went on to the second phase of the project, which was to depict the story in a series of 25 paintings. The final painting is currently being completed ahead of our exhibition which will officially launch the book and release the artworks. This has been many years in the making, so be sure not to miss this one.
The oil paintings below relate to Jasmine's side of the story – set in the modern era.
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTWORK:
YOU ARE WELCOME
Into the grace and embrace of God.
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Our Lord did not offer His life just to push us away. No, He seeks us out and says, "Come, you are welcome here. Come, I have already made a way for you."
This painting was given to me in a vision. I saw the Lord's outstretched, pierced hands, and in the middle a mirror where I caught my own reflection. In that moment, He said, "You are welcome". The vision left me weeping. The same words are calling out to you today, whatever your need, He is able to catch you. Won't you fall into His open arms?
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30