Between God’s Promise and the Storm

When a tornado rips through Meadowbrook, it exposes more than broken

roofs—it lays bare the grief Sam Collins has tried to outrun since his wife’s death.

Reluctantly back in his childhood parsonage with his eight-year-old daughter,

Ella, Sam wants only to fix what’s in front of him and keep his heart walled off

from God. But the town he left behind has other plans. In the quiet courage

of neighbors, the steady kindness of a young pastor, and the innocent prayers

of a child, Sam encounters a grace he thought he’d lost. Then he discovers his

late father’s final sermon—a message about the God who remains in the boat

when storms rise—and everything begins to change.

From splintered pews and tarped windows to a grand reopening drenched

in light, Meadowbrook rebuilds together—and so does Sam. Between God’s

promise and every storm stands a choice: to live guarded by anger or to risk

hope. Poignant and uplifting, Between God’s Promise and the Storm is a story of

second chances, a father’s love, and the community that helps him believe again.