Something that I couldn't answer for myself after my mom died was, is God good?

That took me a long time to really believe.

And now, standing on the other side of grief, I fully believe it.

And so that's something I think that you think you believe it.

And then when something hard happens, you have to really decide if you're going to believe that.

My next guest, Alina Franklin, is an author, an actress, and a vocalist with a passion

for sharing the hope of Jesus.

You know, I feel like I know you, even though we've never met, because I walked War Room,

and it's one of my very favorite Kendrick brothers movies.

And you had a little cameo in The Forge, too, right?

Yes, yeah. So with this being your very

first solo authored book, you've co-written other books, but this one is all by yourself.

What inspired you to write it? And who did you write it for? If I'm going to write something,

it needs to be exactly what God would have me write about.

And I just was thinking, and as I was thinking about, what would I want to write about?

Who would I want to write too?

I just thought of myself.

The past really eight years, specifically in my teenage years, going through, I mean, awful, awful tragedy.

And what did I learn in that season?

What am I still learning? And it was all about the character of God, who God is to me, who I don't know, like my, my idea of him being flipped

on its head and me being able to really like discover the truth about him. That was the past,

that's been the past eight years of my life, so inspired me. So this was really

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