Leaves That Blew Away: A Memoir

Sometimes God isnt just walking in the storm He is the storm.Raw and powerful a wild emotional ride that grabs you by the heart. In a profoundly honest and moving story marked by personal loss and failure Todd Allen pulls back the curtain and ushers the reader into his world reliving the peaks and valleys of a life spent in the shadowlands. His deep intimate style pull readers in and takes them on a journey framed by the contours of a conservative Christian upbringing. Rural evangelical churches one-room schools and summer Bible camps dot the midwestern landscape of a sheltered world with Jesus squarely at the center. While candid and pointed his reflections on life and church and faith are written with a novelists eye and viewed through a lens of sentimental nostalgia for simpler times. As loss piles on loss we watch as a family breaks apart and a childhood faith founders in the storms of life. We walk with him as disappointment with Christianity leads him to walk away from that faith for nearly a decade. This is a story of faith and forgiveness loss and failure of a broken and wandering heart and a God who never lets go.