If You Believed in Love: A Contemporary Christian Romance

If You Believed in Love: A Contemporary Christian Romance Novel

Jonathon Danforth has checked out of life. Stinging from an unimaginable loss, he has withdrawn from life, wanting only to live out his existence with as little interference as possible. However, when his sister talks him into auditing an English Literature class at the local community college, he reluctantly accepts the invitation to abandon his lonely apartment. Intent upon making an appearance for his sisterâ€™s sake and then disappearing for his own, Jonathon sulks into class. But when he meets Elizabeth Forester, the professor, Jonathon learns there is more to life and to love than he ever could have imagined.

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IF YOU BELIEVED IN LOVE is a fascinating mix of literature and faith. A Contemporary Christian romance, the novel explores life, love, death, and redemption. It will surely find its way into your romance novels and inspirational books collections.

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â€œTurn to Appearances, page 31.â€ Without more than a secondâ€™s time, she continued without reading her book. â€œAnd so you found that poor room dull,/Dark, hardly to your taste, my dear?/Its features seemed unbeautiful;/But this I knowâ€”â€˜twas there, not here,/You plighted troth to me, the word/Whichâ€”ask that poor room how it heard.

â€œAnd this rich room obtains your praise/Unqualifiedâ€”so bright, so fair,/So all whereat perfection stays?/Aye, but rememberâ€”here, not there,/The other word was spoken!â€”Ask/This rich room how you dropped the mask!

â€œBrowning uses the metaphor of a house again in this one, a structure of some kind with different rooms. And whatâ€™s the story with this house?â€

â€œThe guy likes one room but not the other.â€

Quiet depth filled her eyes. â€œWhy?â€ She turned, and her gaze caught a raised hand. â€œMr. Hansen?â€

â€œBecause in one room he was trying to be something he wasnâ€™t, and in the other, he dropped the mask.â€

â€œAnd the first room, where he was wearing the mask wasâ€¦?â€

â€œUnbeautiful,â€ Susana said. â€œDull and dark.â€

Ms. Forester seemed lost in the thought. â€œAnd the second room? What was it like?â€

â€œUnqualified,â€ someone down front said, â€œso bright, so fair.â€

â€œHeâ€™s saying the same thing in both poems, is he not?â€ She turned on the toe of her boot and gazed at the whole of her students. â€œBe who you are. Drop the mask. Be brave enough to show the world, and far from losing yourself and being criticized like a finite clod, you may be immortalized like Shakespeare, or at the very least, the room youâ€™re standing in might just seem a little brighter than the one where you were before.â€ Her attention jumped up to the clock. â€œOh, look at the time. Be sure to read the last selections for Thursdayâ€™s class. See you then.â€

It was like snapping awake from a dream and not being at all able to shake it. Jonathon stood as the others did as well. His mind spun trying to think of something, some reason that could keep him here with her for one more minute. He checked his things, gathering them slowly, watching her down front the whole time. One of the other students stepped up to her, and she bent to listen. What could he ask her? What question would be good enough to go to the front?
Country USA
Manufacturer Spirit Light Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-10-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Spirit Light Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-10-27
Format	Kindle eBook

If You Believed in Love: A Contemporary Christian Romance Novel

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