Sunflowers & Rainbows

What if the friend God sends you starts out as a stranger, on the other side of the world?

That's exactly how it happened for Jane, an American grandmother with a lifetime of faith behind her, and Maggie, a British widow rebuilding her life one day at a time. They didn't share a country, a generation, or even a side of the Atlantic. What they shared was a chance meeting online, a growing friendship, and, it turned out, nearly everything else.

Told entirely through their real conversations exactly as they were typed, spelling quirks, British and American English, and inside jokes included, Sunflowers and Rainbows follows five years of messages between two women who came to call each other sisters.

As their trust deepens, Maggie tells Jane what she has never told anyone: about a marriage that took far more than it gave, a pregnancy she was told to end and chose instead to protect, the frightening days surrounding her daughter's difficult childbirth, and a beloved granddaughter's years-long struggle with crisis and self-harm. Jane listens without flinching, prays without ceasing, and points, again and again, back to God.

"The wind blows wherever it pleases, you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." (John 3:8, NIV)

That is exactly how this friendship arrived: unplanned, unlikely, and exactly on time.

For readers who love true stories of faith, resilience, and the family we find when we let God write the story, Sunflowers and Rainbows is a reminder that no one is ever really a stranger to God, and no ocean is too wide for Him to cross.