If Tomorrow Never Comes

Jimmy and Kinna, childhood sweethearts, have been married for twelve years. Kinna married expecting happiness ever after to include husband, home, children. Oh, she has the husband and home, all right, but it’s the children part that eludes her. Her focus is not on her husband or their marriage, but the lack of children.

Jimmy wonders what happened to the woman he loved? He doesn’t understand the all-consuming need for a child. His construction job is difficult, with a boss who is cutting corners in order to beat a deadline. Because of his past upbringing by an alcoholic, widowed father, Jimmy is hesistant to speak up and set things straight. In fact, he is hesistant to do much of anything.

Kinna is bound and determined to have the desire of her heart. Apparently God does not want to answer her prayers, so she repeatedly takes matters into her own hands to the detriment of her marriage and relationships. Things come to a head one day when Jimmy is fired. He comes home and Kinna is not even concerned about the drawn look on his face. She is only consumed with the fact that it is again the right time to try for a baby. She is frustrated as Jimmy refuses and confronts her, for the first time, with his declaration that the word LOVE by her standards is spelled G-I-V-E M-E.

Only with the help of some “angels” does Kinna begin to recognize her destructive actions and surrender to God. The same "angels" help Jimmy to confront his shortcomings and face his own fears.

If Tomorrow Never Comes, by Marlo Schalesky, is a poignant novel of hope and redemptive love.



The author, Marlo Schalesky, writes from personal experience with infertility.

2009 Paperback from Multnomah.

I have one copy to give away.

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