I really Just wanted to sing.

First I want to talk about how I came to write Revival: The True Fairy Tale. Well, first of all, I am not a writer,I don’t have any Bachelor’s and Master degrees in literature, I’m also dyslexic so I have a hard time with words, for me spelling and grammar is a trial. “Yes” I liked to write, but just things like songs and maybe a little poetry, but one thing I never planned on writing, was a book!
I really just wanted to sing for the Lord after I had got saved, back in 1993; you know Christian music “CCM”. I wrote a lot of songs, but some people said I did not have a very good voice; at least that’s what I was told and that’s also the way people treated me in certain churches. When I would sing in Black churches they would say I sound to white. When I would sing in white churches they would not like me either; I sounded white, but I was black. Some churches would let me sing once but would never ask me back again, (Sorry about the black and white churches but that’s how it mostly is up here where I live) “But” regardless of my bad singing and my rejection, I still wanted to sing. It burned in me like a fire, I just could not help wanting to sing for Jesus. But the doors to that were occasional and most of them, for years, remained closed, but every now and then I would lie down and I would hear these words in my head, “Revival: The True Fairy Tale”. I started seeing visions of a book and what it would be about; it was to be RAW CHRISTIAN FICTION. Over the years I wrote down visions and dreams that I would have relating to this book. I would put them away never really taking it serious enough.
One day I went to sleep I had a dream. I was just walking around, kind of going nowhere and I heard a voice call me. It called me three times and when I stopped and listened it said: Seek the Lord diligently Lydia, for He has chosen you to be His servant.” Many other dreams followed, but I still was thinking about singing. I could not get singing for the Lord out of my system, it just raged in me, it even made me make some bad decisions that I probably would not have made if I would have known this was something God did not want me to pursue at this time in my life. It’s not good to ignore God, trying to have your own way in doing things when He is calling you to do something else, it can make you make bad decisions. You know like Jonah in the Bible, running from something God wants you to do; you can make yourself have a whale of a problem when you run, and my problem did become a whale! But, that’s a whole other story, “Anyway”, not one church would let me sing, no Christian event or nothing. Everything went stagnate like a dried up river bed or something. Depression set in, but that inner voice was steady there, “start on that book “Revival: The True Fairy Tale.” One day I was riding home in my car and I started to talk about the book to my youngest daughter she said ‘mom why don’t you start writing that book’ I don’t know, I thought to myself , “well I have nothing else to do, so I guess I will.” So that very day I went home, got on my computer, went to my word processer and started writing “Revival: The True Fairy Tale”. Little did I know the struggle I was about to undergo, just trying to write this book! The only thing I knew about writing was put a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence and a period at the end-that’s it, that’s all I knew! It was like the Lord gave me a pencil and a piece of paper and led me out, up to my neck in the deep waters of literature, with minimum knowledge about it...it was alien territory to me! I reminded myself of Moses when the Lord told him to go lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses was afraid and told God he did not want to do it, but the Lord told him to go; He would be with him, but Moses still complained and the Lord sent his brother Arron with him to help him. He was still fearful, but Moses went. Now, not to compare myself with someone as wonderful and blessed as Moses, it’s just that I was afraid and did not feel like I could do this, but the Lord enabled my daughter to help me and that made me feel better. She knew more about literature than I did. She helped me until the completion of the book; she was like my Arron. For four years we labored over writing the book, having dreams and writing what I felt the Spirit of the Lord wanted me to write. He even gave my daughter dreams; hers was “The Dead in the Sea”. She woke up one day and said “mom, Jesus came in my dream last night and took me to the bottom of the ocean and I saw dead people down there. They were chained together; He told me they were the Dead in the sea.” I felt the Spirit of the Lord say “put that in the book!” I knew right then and there I had to put it in the book. I said “I’m going to put it in the book; that will be the last thing my character "Nina" will see when she exits out of Hell. It was hard putting these dreams and vision together and turning them into a story; it was puzzling! "but, my own belief" is God helped me.

Two angels came to me as I slept. In the dream one angel stood to my left and the other stood to my right, they were very tall, but I could not look up at either of them, but yet I knew they were there. They took me to Hell and showed me these enormous fiery pits, they were very deep and very wide , they were ablaze like burning coals. There were people neatly layered side by side with a thin burning wall between each lost soul that was separating them from one another. These pits were filled with numerous people screaming and hollering out of agony and terror, all the souls were wrapped up in some kind of black sac-cloth that started from the top of their head's down to the bottom of their feet. I asked the angels why the ones on the bottom of the pits were not yelling and one of the angels answered me and said, “because they been here so long they do not cry out anymore”, then they turned me around and started to take me through this other door, but the door was frightening. I then came out of the dream, but I saw enough to put in my book. Other dreams followed; they were intense and frightening, but they were just helping me complete my book.
One day as I slept I was taken up to Heaven where I saw the Dead in Christ. My grandmother was among them. I saw Christ Himself with them. I felt my body gently being laid back down in my bed and I woke up. It was enough to tell the story of the Dead in Christ in my book of what I saw. I could go on and on telling dreams and experiences that I have had that I believe was God-given for me to put in “Revival: The True Fairy Tale” They were numerous and I didn’t write them all down, nor did I put them all in my book, but as you read the book it will speak for itself on how it was spirit driven and spirit given and spirit led.
Why the Lord chose me? I don’t know. I have no literary experience or literary education. I had to revise the book almost ten times trying to correct errors and misspelled words and so on, and even after many revised copies, there are still errors. I’m thankful to God I got some help with editing from CBM Christian Book Marketing. It was hard for them, but they went well over what we had ask for to help us, which we truly appreciated [their efforts] so if anyone purchases “Revival The True Fairy Tale” make sure the front cover has
“Si - Fi / Horror” directly underneath “Christian Fiction” on the top right corner of the book cover and no authors photo on the back; that is the latest revised copy that has been edited with many corrections made; For our consumers: Latest publication and revision of Revival: The True Fairy Tale is: January 7th 2014. Please be advised to purchase the latest revised copy only; it is the most corrected copy available: January 7th 2014. Some online bookstores do not have it updated; this is why the advisory. January 7th 2014. Because I revised it so many times, some book sellers are still selling old copies, that should not be sold because of the many… many mistakes in them, but this is something I cannot control, so don’t buy it from anywhere unless it is the latest revised copy Jan. 7th 2014. Now this advice is coming directly from the author, me, myself and I! :-))

"Unfortunately" our book is still not error and grammar perfect despite all our revisions and countless efforts to make it so; nevertheless still look for the Sci- Fi/ Horror on the front cover, and no author's photo on the back, if it does not have these things it isn’t the latest revised copy and should be sent back... (Just a warning because some book sellers might not send you the latest revised copy;and that irks me). Now, back to what I was saying, God could have called someone who was more educated in literature to write “Revival: The True Fairy Tale”, but He looked real low, very low, and called me. I am nothing but a half-a grain of sand, but He used and called me anyway. I was brave and felt spiritually He was with me. He sent me help and after five, going on six years I got the book to where it is now. You have to endure a lot of failure and rejection to do things for the Kingdom of God; well at least I do. It’s hard to be bold and not compromise His Holy Word in writing this kind of Christian fiction, especially when you may be frowned upon by people who will not appreciate your vision, having nothing but unpleasant things to say about you and your work; you can’t please everybody... Most People are going to reject your perfection, or in my case non perfection , just try and please God and God alone in any works that He has given you. There must be a reward in Heaven for us soldiers who sustain and finish a work that is this challenging; where you might receive a slap in your face instead of a pat on the back..

What I’m about to say only dreamers will understand; people who can conclude when a dream comes from God, because He speaks to them sometimes as they sleep and dream. God will never come in anyone’s dream and encourage them to do anything that is evil or immoral; to hurt yourself or other people or to do anything that is offensive to Him, that is out of His character, but demon’s and the evil one will, Satan and his demons are masters at it ; masquerading themselves as people you know, or even as God; they are very cunning and deceptive and very unassuming since the beginning of creation. They come giving people foul dreams. They come in people’s everyday life situations interfering causing confusion, to manipulate God’s creation and tempt the flesh to sin, to lead the whole world astray from God's order... If you’re not a dreamer and God does not speak to you in your dreams, you will not understand what I just said, or what I’m about to say; all this will sound ridiculous to you. God came in my dream calling me on the phone, we talked a long time, but I can’t remember anything that He said but one thing, before I woke up I heard Him say He liked my book; end of dream

There’s an adventurous story (For those who will like it; but not for those who won’t ) told through “Revival: The True Fairy Tale”. It conveys God's glory and His righteousness throughout the writing of this book. I have no degrees, just a willing heart that harkens to His will. The book still might not be perfect, but I'll keep trying; maybe even another revision again someday, I don't know. Whoever reads it will take a journey. It is true that God can take itsy bitsy teeny weeny nobodies and work through them. We are living proof. Maybe now He will let me sing a little bit despite my bad singing. I’m convinced He took singing away so that I could write and finish writing “Revival: The True Fairy Tale”, because if He had enabled me to sing, I would have been happy doing that, and I would have never even thought of writing this book. Like I said, I am not a writer, just a bonified servant of the Most High. The book cover and trailer and web pages I did myself “because I did not have the money to pay professionals” so I have my haters and criticizers “I’m just being for real! You do the best you can when you don’t have; God does the rest. When he lifts me financially I’m sure I will seek professionalism in all areas of my book. Anyway! let me sing Amazing Grace to you, click on here and hear me sing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaqoN_...

Lydia and Kiya Thornton

Oh! This will be my one and only book; that was just too hard for me to do, I’d rather read a book than to write one again; I guess it’s easier when your literarily educated, but very hard when you’re not. I have developed a pronounced admiration for all journalists and novelists I’ve endured their trials and they deserve a pat on the back. ^_^

Revival The True Fairy Tale: is now newly revised publication date January 7th 2014