Christian Young Adults

What was a book or piece of work that inspired you?

Oh good question! Hmm. Recently, Where the Red Ferns Grow has really inspired me as a writer (it was actually a reread this year). I never realized how deep the spiritual themes went, even though it's not listed as a Christian book.

Howdy Talia and welcome to the forum.

Interesting name. Last Talia I encountered was in a Mercedes Lackey book, about the Heralds of Valdemar.

How young qualifies as young? A lot of us here are pretty old... =^.^= What kind of age brackets are we dealing with here?

Welcome!

Wow thank you so much for your thoughtful answer. I want to check out that book now. Where are you from?

I think a young adult is 40 and under. But everyone welcome.. Where are you from?

Well doggone it, I'm just over the wire at 45. Ah well. (Like I said, a lot of us here are pretty old.)

And to answer your question, southwest Tennessee.

And to answer the initial question, inspiration is wherever you find it. I've found a lot of inspiring thoughts in mere fiction. For example, that Mercedes Lackey book had an interesting thought about the nature of evil.

"What is evil?"

"Oof! You don't believe in asking the EASY ones, do you? Well hmm...

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This isn't the best answer by a long shot, but this is the best I can do. To me evil can't see anything pleasant without wanting to own it and control it. And if he can't own it himself, he'd rather destroy it than let someone else have it."

That's about the best description I've ever heard for the devil. He couldn't be content with leading the praise-and-worship band, he wanted to have the whole world. And since he can't have it himself, he would rather wreck it than leave it for God.

So... Yeah, inspiration is wherever you find it.

YA genre is usually from 14-25

I dont tend to read a lot of YA books (even when I was a young adult) and as far as Christian ones go the ones I may have read would be so out of date lol

I go for memoirs and bios though esp of younger Christians.

I think every young adult needs to read the Diary of Anne Frank thats a bit of a rite of passage and almost all of us have been affected by last centuries world wars to the way we live now.

And the Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan for every believer starting their christian journey. Still holds up after hundreds of years.

You're welcome; I'd love to hear your thoughts when you read it! (Just to note, it does get intense toward the end of the story, if it's something you don't enjoy in books.)
What's a book/piece of work that inspired you?

Also, I hail from the sunny west coast of the U.S How about you? Where are you from?

The Big Book of "Alcoholics Anonymous" helped lead me out of spiritual blindness and into a space where I was willing to trust God again. It was like spiritual kindergarten that eventually led me back to Christ.

@Lily-Keith mentioned the book "Where the Red Fern Grows" and I can remember that book from long ago and the impact it made. Not to get into the book too much, part of the story was that the red fern was mysterious. Had great power because it didn't come natural like. It was planted by angels. I looked and looked for the red fern for long after, but never found one. And that was its beauty. That was its mystery.

See, that's the thing with kids. I didn't just read a book; I swallowed em' whole. And I realized later it was never the fern I hunted in the woods just like it wasn't the closet that opened up Narnia or even the looking glass that eventually looked back at my own self. I was the kid Holden that flunked out of school who eventually found I couldn't save anybody. I wasn't a catcher in the rye. I was just growing up and getting older, is all.

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Where the red fern grows was a great book. I guess I’d just wonder what it is you are looking to be inspired to?