Karen Kingsbury: ‘We Don’t Walk This Life Without the Presence of the Lord’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Karen Kingsbury and her daughter Kelsey recently spoke about the power of miracles in our lives.
“God has really given us a lot of miracles,” Kelsey said during an episode of “The Karen Kingsbury Show” podcast.
She and her mother recalled how the song “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?” became a sign to their family that Kingsbury’s late father was with them. It was one of his favorites, and the family often noticed it playing at important moments in their lives.
“I encourage people to look for the miracles because truly, it’s tempting for us to think that life is about decisions and deadlines and dishes, and it’s not,” Kingsbury stressed. “It’s about so much more, and it’s about the delight of the Lord and how He loves us so much that He would actually bring an angel into [a] moment to change all eternity.”
She continued, “I do believe that God uses these sorts of moments to remind us that He is with us, that we’re not alone in our grief. We don’t walk this journey of life without the absolute presence of the Lord.”
Kelsey agreed, saying, “God is a big God, but He’s also a small, close God in the details. He’s greater than we could ever ask or imagine, and His love is so big, but He is so near, and He’s so close in these details of our hearts.”
Kingsbury is a bestselling author with over 25 million copies of her books in print.
“If you break away my love for writing, …I’m an evangelist,” she told The Christian Post. “At the end of the day, I’m the person who cares that people are hurting. I was not a believer until I was in my mid-20s. I know what that feels like to have lived a life without walking with Jesus…I want to go straight toward [faith], not steer away from that, so that you can see that He is not the reason for the bad things that happened, but He is the rescue, and there’s no way to walk with hope without Him.”
Kingsbury is also celebrating the release of the latest adaptation of her work, the movie SOMEONE LIKE YOU.
“People have said it’s Nicholas Sparks with a thread of redemption and I love that,” she said of the movie. “I can’t wait for people to see it!”
A portion of the Movieguide® review reads:
Based on a novel by Karen Kingsbury, SOMEONE LIKE YOU is a heartwarming tale about love and reconciliation. Viewers will enjoy clean, uplifting entertainment with a faith-based perspective. The movie holds strongly to family values and the sanctity of life in the womb with prominent themes of forgiveness, grief and love. Characters pray and discuss faith on screen and directly recognize the life of human embryos. SOMEONE LIKE YOU has strong themes of faith and family. MOVIEGUIDE® advises a light caution for younger children due to mature themes of death, grief and in vitro births.
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