I think it's that longing and desire for belonging that embodies all of our desire to be in those

loving relationships.

No matter what your failures in life and what you've been

through, you still belong to Christ. He still will love you and he'll still take you into

his family. We can all have that place to belong.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast.

Today we welcome four special guests to the show.

Authors, Brenda Minton, Marta Perry, Lee Tobin, McClain, and Shirley McCoy.

Each writes for love inspired, a line of books that shows how faith, forgiveness, and hope,

have the power to lift our spirits and change our lives.

Through the books they create and the stories they tell us from their own lives,

each author reminds us that love takes many forms,

from love between parents, friends, partners, pets, children, and more.

God has given us many kinds of relationships that bless our lives.

All we have to do is look for them.

I'm Shirley McCoy. I'm Shirley McCoy.

I'm an author.

I've been writing professionally for 15 years.

My name is Brenda Minton, and I live in the small town that I grew up in. I have a very very busy life. I have two biological children and six adopted children, a daughter-in-law, two granddaughters, my husband is a pastor, so that means I'm the

pastor's wife, children's ministry worker, and I also write for Love-inspired.

Hello, my name is Marta Perry. I'm an author, have been a full-time writer for a number of years.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was about H when I realized that some person actually wrote the stories that I love so much.

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