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Copper Island Author and Artist

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Category: Suffering

My Most Personal Novel

August 11, 2019
Kristin Neva
Books, Romance, Suffering, Writing

Across the Bridge felt the most personal of the three novels I’ve written. As I’ve watched Todd’s body slowly decline these past nine years, I’ve struggled with God and the suffering in the world.

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Resurrection

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019
Kristin Neva
Books, Suffering

Todd had his breathing tests this week, and it wasn’t good news—it’s never great because his breathing weakens every 6 months, but usually just a few points. However, the decline was 9 points in the last 6 months, 16 points over

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The Rules of My Universe

March 26, 2018March 31, 2018
Kristin Neva
Books, Suffering, Writing

In maintaining the rules of the world I’ve created with strokes of a pen, I have a better appreciation for why God doesn’t always intervene in our lives. Different genres of literature are set in various times and places, and

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Keweenaw Sweetness

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017
Kristin Neva
Books, History, Life on Copper Island, Suffering

The Strawberry Festival is over, but fortunately the Keweenaw is still producing the little red berries. It’s some solace in a summer that’s slow in coming. In Snow Country, Beth found hope in Pastor Chip’s words. “It’s going to take

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Moms with Sisu

May 14, 2017May 14, 2017
Kristin Neva
Books, Life on Copper Island, Suffering

As we celebrate Mother’s Day, we honor the many women who have shaped our lives and have had sisu to persevere through the winters of life.

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Beauty in Brokenness

March 1, 2017
Kristin Neva
Suffering

“The burden of grief is heavy, like the snow that crushed that old barn out in the field, but spring will come and the snow will melt.” In my novel Snow Country, Louisa comforts her granddaughter, who is grieving her

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The Gap

May 18, 2016March 1, 2017
Kristin Neva
Books, Suffering, Writing

“Did you think I was as old as you?!” He looked at me incredulously. Ouch. I was at a coffee shop with a writing group. A fellow writer also grew up in the area. “What school did you go to?”

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