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STORIES OF HOPE AND HEALING Local author Sharon Reynolds has just published her third book in The Kingdom Series, called Keys to Kingdom
Power. It was not her plan to write a series but when she wrote her first book, Becoming the Daughter of the King, a raw and gritty tale about her earlier life as a single mum with two daughters, one book led to another. “The first book is more of an autobiography – a kind of testimony, if you like, of my own life and my own journey into adulthood and discovering faith,” says Sharon. “I journal daily, so for me, the process was to pull out my journals, go back through them, and put my story together.” Sharon says she grew up reading books and had a great imagination as a child. “My father fostered a love of reading and books in us. So that's kind of been a legacy.” She loved to tell people stories and, being Ngāti Kahangunu decent, she says, “Our iwi are creative storytellers. So, I would tell stories and people would say to me, ‘wow, that's amazing, Sharon, you should write that’.” What Sharon discovered from sharing her stories was that
she was helping those people says. lives. It is a book of truth, and that is when the idea for It soon led to her second book, love, and hope. the book took flight and the The Kingdom Within, a story of “It’s for all women who are timing of COVID could not inner healing and finding oppressed, all women who have been better. identity in truths rather than are desperate,” says Sharon. Writing her first book was a the lies people tell themselves. “It's for all women who love journey about confronting her Her latest book, Keys to their children and feel like Power, past – abuse and desperation Kingdom brings they're going to lose them – and moving forward – together stories of desperate and it's their last breath. finding faith with her new women who are delivered out husband and discovering a new of desperate places in their Continued on page 11... life. That new life saw Sharon and her husband becoming missionaries on a road of faith that took them to Papua New Guinea, Arnhem Land in Australia – the aboriginal backlands, Africa, and Cambodia. What she didn’t expect was how much her journey resonated with people. “I'm not really telling a new story,” says Sharon. “Women have been going through this repeatedly. But here I could write a story of hope and redemption; make it my own by weaving my story into it.” Author Sharon Reynolds with the three books she has She soon realised that others were impacted by her story published under The Kingdom Series. Her latest book, Keys and that their lives were to Kingdom Power, follows on from her journey of hope and redemption and her discovery that her words could help people. transformed through it. Readers started contacting her from overseas and shared their stories with her and how they had been healed through reading her book. “I never expected this,” she