Outstretched.(A novel about faith, and our journey)

Outline: Outstreched.
Synopsis: A boy wakes up on a dirt road, to find that he knows nothing of where he is. He asks another boy he sees walking along the road, where his home might be? The new boy, who when asked says he should just be called brother, tells the first boy(Mark) that he knows exactly where his home is. Brother asks Mark if he would like to follow him along the path, to find his way home. Mark accepts and the story that follows involves between 8 and 13 challenges that are over come.
In the middle of the story, Mark deviates from Brother deciding it is taking far too long overcoming all of these challenges and decides that he will take a different path. He find that alone, the walk is much harder, and eventually it becomes almost impossible, to the point of death. Just as Mark is having his final thoughts he sees a hand extended towards him, looking up he sees brother. He takes his hand, and knows that brother has forgiven him. He is instantly alright, and then asks “Friends?” To which brother replies, “Brothers.”
Some of the challenges involve allegories of:
Sex
Drugs
Family ties
Relationships
Responsibility
Forgiveness
Being able to love
Struggle against pride
Struggle against sin
Giving in completely to faith
Preaching and being a minister and warrior for truth.




Suggestions?

Tonight was a good night, a faithful night, I got to minister to a friend who was lost. I invited her to church, and she said she might go. Which is a start, she said to me tonight; "how can I trust in god, when he might not even be real?" to which i replied, I cant make you believe maggie, thats something you have to come to on your own. You are allowed to not believe, but I can tell you that I believe, and I know that god is here. He is always here, for you and for me. later in the conversation I told her, you know one day its gonna click, something is going to change and you will be happy, for one day, for one week, for one month, and for every day of the rest of your life. I think that the fact that I was so sure, was something that struck a chord in her. I love jesus, I told her this. I hope she comes to the cross, because really it changes you, for the better. I'm happy, im healthy, I have a relationship with christ, and I found that love that I was so desperatly searching for, for so long. Now it is my turn to give back for all of the things that christ has given me. It is my turn to fish for men. I never thought i would be a fisherman.

I will also start working on a book that mirrors emily's Christian teen girls guide to surviving highschool, but for boys. Check back later for that.

Peace and love in Christ,
David.