On This Episode of ELTV, Paul and Katherine Viney, Co-Authors of their new book “Through It All Promises, Shattered Dreams and Restoration.” share about their 50 plus years of marriage as they dedicated their lives to serve God, and the challenging journey they have been on!
Website: https://kathyviney.com
I have enjoyed journaling over the years, but had never thought about writing a book. In 1996, as my husband embraced me, in the midst of a catastrophic nightmare from hell, these words gingerly crossed my lips, “Maybe I will write a book about how we made it from tragedy to triumph.”
The aftermath of that tragedy muffled those words, until nine months later. I was having lunch at McDonald’s and to my surprise God arranged a divine appointment. I found myself setting across the table from a man and woman who God had sent to encourage me. During our conversation he told me, “You have books in you.” My response was a scoffing laugh of unbelief, but those words echoed in my mind for many years.
I went back to school, at age 50 to further my education and graduated in 2007, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing. After graduating I discovered, the thing I missed most was writing. This degree opened doors for me to become a sales and marketing director, for the last seven and a half years, of my career, before retiring in November of 2015.
Writing continued to pull at my heart. My first project was to work with my husband creating, what we called our “Life Story” Project. We shared our family history and many stories from our childhood, teen years, marriage and years of ministry. My husband took on digitizing our photos, for this project. We transferred this document to flash drives and gave them to our three children and two older Grandchildren, at Christmas that year. We plan to give copies to all our grandchildren, as they turned 18.
Once completed, I still found myself still longing to write and strongly considered writing that book. Finally, in the spring of 2015 I began to write my first book; sharing many stories of God’s Faithfulness in our life’s journey.