Almost Heaven (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Billy Allman: hillbilly genius
• Malachi: an angel sent to observe Billy
• Callie Reynolds: Add a description of this character.
• Mrs. Allman
• Natalie Edwards
• Heather Blanch Hargrove
• Harless Winslow Allman
• Hadley Preston
• Vernon Turley
• Mr. Gibson
• Larry Childers
• Lester Flatt
• Bill Monroe
• Paul Davidson
• Dr. Rogers
• Ruthie Bowles
• Clay Gilmore
• Macel Preston
• Mrs. Blanch
• Opal Walker
• Mr. Blanch
• Mae Edwards
• Adrian Rogers
• Daddy
• Becky Putnam
• Earl Caldwell
• Mrs. Reynolds
• Elvis
• John
• Arlene Allman
• Albert
• Oakley Chambers
• Miss Dreama
• Jimmy Stillwater
• Charles Broughton
• David
• Saul

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• “There seems to be a sound track to each human’s life that runs through every thread and fiber of their being.”

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• the struggle of our lives was not a sign that we were failing or losing. The struggle was a sign that there was still life. If you stopped struggling, that’s when you needed to be worried. The fight meant God was helping you keep going one more day even if you didn’t think you could make it.

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• For the human followers, it is in losing that they finally discover. It is in failing that they see. It is in the abandonment of the trail they believed would lead them to lasting joy that they set out on a new path. It is much narrower and overgrown, but in the journey through this wilderness of the soul, they discover more about themselves and Him than if every prayer of their wayward hearts had been answered in the affirmative.

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• The Lord gives us all a song to play, and at first we just play it the best we know how and try to work on it and make it better. Most of the time it sounds awful. But there comes a point where we realize it’s not really our song to begin with, and if we’ll follow the lead of the one who wrote the tune in the first place, we’ll come out all right.

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• This is the malady of the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and call it everlasting. They focus on awards, achievements, and what can be done in their own strength while the Almighty desires to work through their weakness. Very few humans, from what I have observed, ever realize how weak they really are, let alone surrender their limited abilities to the power of the One who can transform that weakness into spiritual strength that can alter the world.

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• “If You were a just God, You would give me what I ask.” In that cry, they show that it is not the glory of God they desire, but the want and need in their own heart.

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• “Because I don’t think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don’t doubt that a man like that can change the world . . . or at least a little part of it.”

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• Humans struggle with the underside of the tapestry, unable to see the beauty in their situation, for they cannot know how the trouble of life fits with The Plan. On the other hand, those of us above are able to see a different view and the orchestration with which the world is held together and moved forward. Seemingly unrelated events below the tapestry take on new meaning from our vantage.

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• In the mind of the enemy, if they can push a human away from Truth, whatever the means, then they succeed in the continued separation of the created from the Creator. If that human is a follower of the Way, if he possesses a real faith that casts his entire being on the goodness and mercy of God, the evil one will make every attempt to thwart that life and bring it to naught. To discourage and keep that person disconnected from Life. Get him to settle for much less than what the Creator desires for each of His children.

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• I believe every life has hidden songs that hang by twin threads of music and memory. I believe in the songs that have never been played for another soul. I believe they run between the rocks and along the creekbeds of our lives. These are songs that cannot be heard by anything but the soul. They sometimes run dry or spill over the banks until we find ourselves wading through them.

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• “‘Darlin’, life is a song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background. Don’t question the purpose of things; just sing along.’”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• West Virginia
• Kentucky
• Huntington
• Charleston
• Almighty
• Buffalo Creek

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Chris Fabry (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Christy Award (2011: Contemporary Standalone, Winner)
• ECPA Gold Medallion Award (2011: Fiction)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States