#SaturdaySpotlight is on Michelle Russell and Her Name is Hope!

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Today's guest is brand new to our blog and a brand new author so please welcome Michelle Russell with her book, Her Name is Hope....

My name is Michelle Russell and I currently live in Lake Charles, LA. I’m originally from a small rural community in Mississippi where money is scarce but love and family are abundant. 

 Writing has always been a passion of mine but never an option. Being a single mother, my time was spent working two and three jobs at a time, while trying to raise my three children. Writing was something I did in secret as my “release”. I never even considered it as my calling until recently. My children are now grown and for the first time in my life I have found this precious thing called ‘time’. I still work full-time and have a very busy schedule, but I have found that my passion for writing was still with me. One night I was sitting on my sofa channel surfing and finding nothing but numbing garbage on the television. The television shows were all either crime dramas, pure filth, or shows geared toward convincing us that its ok to sin as long as it suits yours or someone else’s agenda. This was unacceptable. I didn’t want to see or hear anything else that was advocating and glorifying sin. It was then a story came into my mind. I believe it was God telling me that it was up to me to create what it was I was searching for. It was so obvious that what I was looking for was what was already inside me. So I grabbed my laptop and just started writing. 

The story was about a young woman who had an abortion simply because having a child would have hindered her aspirations of success. However, she had waited too late for a conventional abortion and sought out a doctor who would perform a late term abortion. She found such a doctor. However, unbeknownst to her the abortion wasn’t successful. An assistant working in the clinic, Mia, finds the child in a trash bin with the remains of the other aborted babies. She had no money, no real family, and no real means of supporting this child, but she didn’t care. Mia had also been a discarded child and she would do everything to help this baby. She took the child and raised her as her own. Many years later the child would find her biological mother, but not in the way you might think. This reunion was a matter of life and death. The two are reunited and their lives are changed forever.

“Looking at Hope, she finally sees why. It is in that moment,  Myrtis’s words come back to her, All things work together for good to them that love God. Mia now knows that she had to be in all those places and go through all the horrible things in order for her to be standing where she is. Seeing Hope on that stage and the world listening to her story.

God was preparing her for her calling. He was placing her where she needed to be in order to save Hope. God needed her to send a message that would burn into the hearts of the world and make them see. He needed her to help save the world”

You can find and follow me by email at: monasmoments@gmail.com OR Message me on Facebook “Melinda Michelle Russell”

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This sounds like an amazing story, Michelle! Good luck and God's blessings with it.

PamT