Karen Kingsbury - Someday

What Readers Are Saying about KAREN KINGSBURYS Books My friend Shelley and I call your books peanut butter books because when we start reading we just cant stop, and our families know its peanut butter and jelly for dinner that night! - Cathy S.

Everyone should have the opportunity to read or listen to a book by Karen Kingsbury. It should be in the Bill of Rights. - Rachel S.

Karen Kingsburys books are filled with the unshakable, remarkable, miraculous fact that Gods grace is greater than our suffering. There are no words for Ms.

Kingsburys writing. - Wendie K.

Because I loaned these books to my mother, she BECAME a Christian! Thank you for a richer life here and in heaven! - Jennifer E.

When I read my first book, I couldnt stop. I read thirteen more in one summer! - Jamie B.

I have never read anything so uplifting and entertaining. Im shocked as I read each new release because its always better than the last one. - Bonnie S.

Let Me Hold You Longer is breathtaking! My friend read this story to me - the first night we both left our new babies overnight. And by the end, the two of us were bawling. She bought me my own copy for Mothers Day, and I read it to everyone and each person cries as I read the words. I now buy it for every baby shower I go to. I think every parent should own or read this book. I read it as often as I can. - Shannon

My husband is equally hooked on your books. It is a family affair for us now!

Cant wait for the next one. - Angie

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The words God gives you in your stories have such power to reach my emotions.

No other author has been able to do that! - Diane Every time our school buys your next new book, everybody goes crazy trying to read it first! - Roxanne

Recently I made an effort to find GOOD Christian writers, and Ive hit the jackpot with Karen Kingsbury! - Linda

When Karen Kingsbury calls her books Life-Changing Fiction, shes merely telling the unvarnished truth. Im still sorting through the changes in my life that have come from reading just a few of her books! - Robert M.

I must admit that I wish I was a much slower reader or you were a much faster writer. Either way I cant seem to get enough of Karen Kingsburys books! - Jillian B.

I was offered $50 one time in the airport for the fourth book in the Redemption series. The ladys husband just couldnt understand why I wasnt interested in selling it. Through the sharing of Karens books with many of my friends, many have decided that contemporary Christian fiction is the next best thing to the Bible. Thank you so much, Karen. It is truly a God thing that you write the way you do. - Sue Ellen H.

Karen Kingsburys books have made me see things in ways that I had never thought about before. I have to force myself to put them down and come up for air! - Tabitha H.

Karen, how did you get inside my head and heart to portray your characters so accurately? I identify with so many of the Baxter family in every one of the Redemption series! Due to all the tears I have shed in reading your books, I have enhanced the sales of tissues big time. So in a word, between us we are helping the economy. - Maxine B.

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Karen Kingsbury

SOMEDAY

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Carol Stream, Illinois

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Someday

Copyright 2008 by Karen Kingsbury. All rights reserved.

Logo illustration copyright 2003 by David Henderson. All rights reserved.

Cover photo of man copyright 2005 by Brian MacDonald. All rights reserved.

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Author photo copyright 2004 by Shippert Photography. All rights reserved.

Designed by Jennifer Ghionzoli

Edited by Lorie Popp

Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kingsbury, Karen.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-8423-8749-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8423-8749-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Family - Fiction. I. Title. PS3561.I4873S57 2008 813.54 - dc22 2007047796

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To Donald, my prince charming

In this sad season of losing my dad, you have been a rock for me, precious love.

Working quietly behind the scenes to fill in when Im on deadline or when the kids need a little extra help with schoolwork and checking in on me more often than before. You understand the great loss were all experiencing, the void among us now that my dads smile is forever gone from the here and now. But the thing that showed me again why I love you so much is something you did just this morning. My moms birthday is tomorrow, and you knew it. With my dad gone less than a month now, and with me on deadline to finish this book, you stopped by the florist, picked up a bouquet of flowers, and wrote my mom a two-page letter, telling her all the reasons why you loved my dad and all the ways that you would be there for my mom now that Dad is gone. The amazing thing about being married to you is that your love has a way of multiplying. Its no longer about the many ways you find to love and cherish me, but how you love our family and our extended family. Heres the thing you really are my prince charming, Donald.

I mean it. I love you more with every passing day, understanding as we settle into these middle years that time is not a guarantee.

Today is a gift, and tomorrow is uncertain. And so I treasure these beautiful, loving days, looking forward to our intimate moments in a quiet walk or laughing over something only we would understand. The ride is breathtakingly beautiful, my love. I pray it lasts far into our twilight years. Until then, Ill enjoy not always knowing where I end and you begin. I love you always and forever.

To Kelsey, my precious daughter

You are eighteen now, a young woman, and my heart soars with joy when I see all that you are, all youve become. We prayed that through the teenage years you would stay true to who you are, to that promise of purity you made when you were thirteen, once upon a yesterday on a bench overlooking a sunlit river. But I never dreamed youd so fully hold true to that promise. You look forward to that far-off day when you can share with your future husband the gift youve saved for him alone. But in the meantime, you trust God that with Him, laughter and friendship and dancing and singing and spending time with your family are enough. More than enough. Honey, you grow more beautiful - inside and out every day. And always I treasure the way you talk to me, telling me your hopes and dreams and everything in between. I can almost sense the plans God has for you, the very good plans. I pray you keep holding His hand as He walks you toward them. And when you sing out across that stage a few months from now, Papa will have a front row seat in heaven - proud as ever. Just remember that. I love you, sweetheart.