The Importance of Daydreams by M.L. Tyndall - WIN HER BOOK!

It's my pleasure to welcome today's guest poster, author M.L. Tyndall, back to the blog!

Daydreams
by
M.L. Tyndall

When I was a kid, I spent much of my time daydreaming. You see, I didn’t have a very stable home life and I wasn’t popular in school. I was the nerdy, homely girl with the pimples who was too shy to strike up a conversation with anyone I didn’t know. Consequently, I often drifted away in my mind to a make-believe world where I was the princess who everybody loved and adored, rescued by a handsome prince who would then spend his life loving and caring for me. I always had an ongoing adventure playing out in my head, one that got often interrupted when I had to do some mundane task such as answer a question, take a test, or do a chore. For me, my imaginary world was more real than the world I lived in, a world that couldn’t possibly be the real world at all because it was so sad and hard and painful. As I look back on those years, I realize two things. One that God had given me an outlet, an escape from the pain of my childhood that kept me going when I probably would have given up, and two, in His providential wisdom, He was calling me to be a storyteller.

God gives us great dreams. Within each of us He implants a dream unique only to us. It is why He created us, our purpose. And when we find that purpose, we find fulfillment. Like Cinderella’s glass slipper, it is a perfect fit, unique only to us, and one that leads us into a world we only dreamed of before. So I encourage you, don’t ignore your daydreams, and don’t ignore those silent tugs upon your heart. Ask God to reveal to you their meaning and to show you the path to see them fulfilled.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M.L. Tyndall, a Christy Award Finalist, and best-selling author of the Legacy of the King’s Pirates series is known for her adventurous historical romances filled with deep spiritual themes. She holds a degree in Math and worked as a software engineer for fifteen years before testing the waters as a writer. MaryLu currently writes full time and makes her home on the California coast with her husband, six kids, and four cats. Her passion is to write page-turning, romantic adventures that not only entertain but expose Christians to their full potential in Christ. For more information on MaryLu and her upcoming releases, please visit her website at http://www.mltyndall.com/ or her blog at http://crossandcutlass.blogspot.com/


ABOUT THE BOOK - The Blue Enchantress

Betrayed by the man she longed to marry, Hope Westcott is about to be auctioned off as a slave to the highest bidder on an island in the Caribbean. After enduring a difficult childhood in an unloving home, Hope’s search for love and self-worth have led her down a very dangerous path. All she ever wanted was to find true love and open an orphanage where she could raise children with all the love she never experienced as a child. But how can a woman with a sordid past ever hope to run an orphanage, let alone attract the love of an honorable man?

Determined to overcome the shame of his mother’s past, Nathaniel Mason worked for many years to build his own fleet of merchant ships in an effort to finally acquire the respect of Charles Towne society. Ignoring the call of God on his life to become a preacher, he forges ahead with his plans for success at a distant port in the Caribbean, when he sees a young lady he knows from Charles Towne being sold as a slave. In an effort to save Hope, he is forced to sell one of his two ships, only to discover that her predicament was caused by her own bad behavior. Angry and determined to rid himself of her as soon as possible, Nathaniel embarks on a journey that will change the course of his life.

From the Carolina Coast to the Caribbean, through stormy seas and shipwreck, can Hope and Nathaniel put aside their painful pasts, listen to God's voice, and find true love and acceptance?


WIN THE BOOK

If you’d like to be entered to win a copy of The Blue Enchantress , just leave a reply to this blog. I’ll pick a winner at random on August 17th. Please leave an email address so I can contact you if you're the winner. (To prevent spammers from trolling for your email, please use this format with the brackets--you [at] yourmail [dot] com--or something similar.) Good luck!