I remember always loving to write. In sixth grade, I have a vivid memory of laying in the soft grass as the sun heated my back with notebook and pencil in hand as I worked on a story for an assignment. Our teacher had taken us outside to enjoy the weather as we finished the details of our individual tales. Now, as I occasionally flip through the pages of my real-life story, I am humbled and amazed at how God has used it. Just tonight, my younger sister, Monica, shared with me how my story of Ella has touched a friend of hers personally. She befriended a young man that was in trouble and when he went to jail, became his pen-pal. When my book was released, Monica purchased one and sent it to this young man. Recently, she received a letter from him saying that it was the best book he's ever read and that he not only read it once, but twice! The words in the book prompted him to examine his life more closely and gave him reason to believe that God...