LOVE'S TRUE HOME

LOVE'S TRUE HOME
Friday, June 28, 2024 by LORI DEJON

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LORI DEJONG

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Defining Home

When you hear the word home, do you automatically envision your current place of residence? Maybe it’s the house you always dreamed of, decorated just so, with all the things and people around you that bring you joy.

Or does that word toss you back to your childhood home? A place where life was more carefree and dreams were without boundaries.

Perhaps that word causes your imagination to look toward the future, to perhaps owning your first home or building a home from the ground up.

Most of us, when we think of home, think of a place. A physical building where we dwell, maybe with a spouse, children, a dog, or a cat. Or a place of serenity and personal space that soothes you after a hectic workday. Or a busy, happening place with roommates who make life an adventure.

The prospect of home means very different things to the main characters of my upcoming release, Love’s True Home, the second book in my True Calling Series. Ally was born on a foreign mission field in Central America and lived in four different countries as her parents traveled to start up medical clinics in remote areas where health care was pretty much unheard of, not to mention the gospel.

When she came to Arlington, Texas, for college, she fell in love with the US, and her goal became all about putting down roots. A place where she could have lifelong friends, a church family, and hopefully a husband whom she could have children with and raise right there in one place.

Zane, on the other hand, was born and raised in the same town and the same house until he left home at eighteen after the death of his father. His mother had long been gone, to only God knew where. So alone in the world, Zane went seeking adventure. Early on, it wasn’t about God at all, until some college roommates got a hold of him and brought him back to the faith of his childhood. After that, he moved frequently, always after “what’s next” in his service to the Lord. He never acquired much when he landed somewhere because he always knew he would be moving on.

But his biggest dream is to work in foreign missions, to go to a far-off land and live, work, and play among the people. Throw himself into a different culture, learn a new language, and bring the message of the gospel to those who don’t look like him, talk like him, or dress like him. Home to Zane is something he’s left behind, along with all the heartbreak, not something he’s searching for.

Until … Ally.

Who’d grown up on the mission field.

Who’d already lived HIS dream but appeared to be over it.

How can he convince the woman who owns his heart to see the world with him if all she wants is to dig her roots deep into Texas soil?

And Ally knows she can’t expect him to stick in one place when his heart longs to be free.

Can she find a home beside him, wherever he might go? Or does a sense of home mean more to him than he realizes?

Come along with Zane and Ally in Love’s True Home, a story of discovering what home really means.

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ABOUT LORI DEJONG

Lori DeJong is a contemporary Christian romance author who enjoys penning stories full of grace and the redemptive power of God’s love that inspire others to hope regardless of circumstance, find joy in the moment, and grow in their faith. She resides in Georgetown, Texas, with her husband and two fur-babies and is the mother of one grown daughter. Lori's debut novel, Love's True Calling, was the 2022 winner of the ACFW Genesis Award for Romance and was released in June 2023. Love’s True Home is out now, and Love’s True Measure will be released in June 2025.

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