Daughters of Destiny Collection

Daddy's Girl

Kari St. John
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ISBN: 0595267475
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"And some of those of understanding shall fall, to refine them, purify them, and make them white, until the time of the end." - Daniel 11:35

From the Author

This book is lovingly dedicated to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, who lifted me when I failed, who loved me when I was unlovable, who pulled me, when I pushed, and who ultimately still fulfilled the destiny plan for my life. Thank you for the love, My God, The lover of my soul.

I also dedicate it to my children, who stuck with me through the hard times, who became my arrows against the enemy. Matthew, the prayer warrior, and Samantha, My scripture reference leader.

I dedicate it to all my teachers, without whom this book would never have been finished.

     Kari St. John

  Can we ever Truly Run from our past…
      …Or our Destiny?

Kyra
Kyra had it all. Beauty, brains, and a wonderfully planned future. But one night ruined everything she dreamed her life would become.

Fleeing from her past and the accusations that surround her, she ends up in New York, and by a twist of fate, under the protection of one of New York's most famed photographers.

7 years later, Kyra, supermodel, is considered one of the most glamorous women in the world.

But now her past is back to haunt her. Photographs land in the wrong hands…and now she is being stalked…by the one person that can destroy all that she has become. Rich, powerful, Mike Sanderson walks back into her life…and offers her a proposition she dare not refuse.

Mike
Mike has lived the life that most men only dream about. But he still wants more. A chance glance at a magazine cover changes everything he has believed was once important. Kyra had taken him once to the heights of heaven, and the depths of hell. And for seven years he has fostered a hatred for everything he believed she was. Now he has found out the truth, that she has once more stolen from him, and this time he's coming to take back what he's lost.

It sets off a chain of events that will take them spiraling toward destiny…or destruction. And he is powerless to stop it from happening. But in her presence he soon realizes something more…does he even want to?

Read an excerpt from Daddy's Girl...

Kyra looked around the room at her friends. People she had been with since she had been in New York, and Her heart expanded with love. These were people who were not perfect, as her other friends had been, but they were the people who would give their time, their effort, their very lives, for a God who had been merciful to their sin. She had listened to the testimonies of these people for so long. How God had delivered them from lives filled with drugs, abuse, and pain, but until now, she had never spoken on her own. But now, knowing it would be a long time before she saw them again, seemed like the right time.

"I thought I had all the God I needed," she began, and Mike knew that every word took effort. Obviously, sharing her personal pain was something she still found uncomfortable, even though the evidence that that past had made her a better person illuminated every word she spoke. " I was upright, righteous, and holy. But I'd left out love. Love for others, and…love for myself. I could not forgive others, and when the time came, I could not forgive myself." She looked around the room, seeing the love and support there, then staring over their heads to cover her embarrassment, looking into the cold eyes of her husband as he sat with Michelle, not participating, just observing. Sorrow filled her heart, as she willed him to forgive her, but his indifference seared her.

"After years of searching and wondering, what I could have done differently, I realize nothing…absolutely nothing. Because in the pain, in the fire of accusation and indignation, in the times of bitter isolation, I released myself and I embraced my God. You don't begin to know God in the good times. You learn the love, the mercy, the strength, the compassion, and his overwhelming grace…in the places where you thought he has forgotten you. In the places where you have to soar above the clouds and find rest for your spirit and your soul in the tender arms of God's everlasting mercy. Is there anything I would have changed? Looking back…no. I have a wonderful daughter, my Michelle, a good job, good friends, and a God who loves me more than I could ever have known otherwise. And that knowledge alone was worth the trip.

"Just to realize that the fire breathing dragon chasing me down was not my Father. The bitter taskmaster that I had made Him out to be was nothing like the God that showed Himself to me when I had nowhere else to turn. And that His mercy hovers over me. My Father, My God, My Daddy, loves me…me! And I would not give that up for anything in the world."

Mike looked at his wife and realized in that instant how much she had changed. From the young girl who believed anyone who did wrong should suffer the punishment of a just and holy God and deserved no pity, to a woman, a woman of infinite wisdom, who knew that there was a God who loved more than they as humans could ever comprehend.

His heart was softening toward her, and he did not like it. But like it or not, it had happened. How, when? He sat there deep in thought. Not something he had planned.

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