Welcome...
... to a story. About how God can work in people's lives. In amazing ways.
It's 1970 and two wildly different teens have their lives collide in the summer school holidays at Endhills on the Cornish Coast. For Karen and Peter initial conflict quickly changes to love when they both realise they have hurts that the other understands but the world doesn't. A roller coaster of events deepen their relationship and they vow to marry but tragedy stops this.
More than forty years pass before they meet again in dramatic circumstances. Both have changed radically. Karen's faith has moved her on from wild teenage years to a caring wife and mother who shows God's love wherever she can. But Peter has never recovered from losing the love this girl showed him that summer and plunges himself into an achievement-oriented life, bringing prosperity not happiness and leading him into a downward spiral of depression and loneliness to the point where he doubts the point of living.
Can Karen help Peter rediscover his faith and turn him around to become again the person she loved as a teenager? Do they find the understanding and forgiveness for events long gone? Will this heal Karen's suppressed pain and give the strength to face her own life challenges? Can Endhills work the magic it did almost a half century ago?
This is a story about a God who never wastes an experience, however painful. And uses sadness and despair to bring people to understand his love and how he wants them to live. It deals with the power of love and how to face the despair that comes when looking back at a life lived without God and realising how things could have been so different. It's about the power of faith to inspire selfless action and how God guides believers through difficult situations.
Endhills deals with real-life situations and the hurts they give. And it's not about a soft God who takes the pain away like Paracetamol. Rather one who chips away at our stubbornness to fashion us for an eternal life with him.