Karen Zacharias never wanted to be an outsider. It just happened that way. Losing her father in Vietnam made her a ‘Gold Star Daughter’ and with it, the awkwardness of having a story others didn’t share. She found love and acceptance in a Christian fellowship and began to blossom, even becoming a fixture in Christian publishing.

Then the love she knew seemed to evaporate around her and she was faced with a real crisis of faith. What would she do? Where would she turn? Who would she trust? Karen’s story is multi-layered, troubling, and in the end redemptive. Much like the fiction she now writes as an established author of books rooted in her native South.

Today is part 2 a series into the heart of real Compassion and how painful it can be sometimes to find it. But oh, how rewarding it is when we persist until we do…

To learn more about Karen, go to KarenZach.com