Authors: Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy
ISBN-13: 9781590523537, ISBN-10: 1590523539
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Eric Ludy
As full-time speakers, writers, and musicians, Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge and encourage young adults and singles around the world to pursue holiness in every aspect of their lives. The Ludys live in Windsor, Colorado.
Leslie Ludy
As full-time speakers, writers, and musicians, Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge and encourage young adults and singles around the world to pursue holiness in every aspect of their lives. The Ludys live in Windsor, Colorado.
This daringly real, intensely moving love story gives vision and hope to everyone in search of a love worth waiting for. In their bestseller When God Writes Your Love Story, Eric and Leslie Ludy described the breathtaking perfection of God's plans for each young person and offered fresh guidelines for being Christlike in relationships with the opposite sex. When Dreams Come True shares the Ludys' personal story, illustrating how they lived out the principles of the first book in their own romance and marriage. Includes an all-new chapter from Eric Ludy, "What Happened Next?"
“I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet He was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of His own...”
Here’s hope for anyone in search of a love worth waiting for.
From the bestselling authors of When God Writes Your Love Story comes this daringly real, true-life account of Eric and Leslie Ludy’s own journey through the struggles and triumphs of a God-written romance.
Story Behind the Book
Eric and Leslie Ludy know that most young people today have never seen a successful, Christ-centered relationship modeled, and believe that “happily ever after” is a thing of the past. The Ludy’s wrote When Dreams Come True to offer their own example of a God-written love story, providing the vision for that “something better” that so many young people have never seen.
Authors' Note | 7 | |
Eric: The Day a Dream Came True | 9 | |
Part 1 | The Search | |
Leslie: Bittersweet Memories | 17 | |
Eric: Foothills High School | 22 | |
Leslie: Rutherford Elementary School | 27 | |
Eric: Mountaintop Christian Camp | 32 | |
Leslie: Lakeshore Bible Church | 39 | |
Eric: The Ludy Dinner Table | 43 | |
Leslie: 311 Rambling Rose Road | 49 | |
Eric: Baldwin Hall | 58 | |
Leslie: Ridgeview High School | 65 | |
Eric: Stewart Hall | 76 | |
Leslie: Evergreen Christian Camp | 80 | |
Eric: Marky's Bedroom | 86 | |
Eric: Sofia, Bulgaria | 91 | |
Eric: Eric's Love Letter | 95 | |
Eric: The Toyota Camry | 96 | |
Part 2 | The Friendship | |
Eric: Creekside Community Church | 103 | |
Leslie: Creekside Community Church | 105 | |
Eric: 1422 South Newport Way | 109 | |
Eric: 311 Rambling Rose Road | 112 | |
Leslie: Romero's Pizzeria | 117 | |
Eric: Twin Oaks Ranch | 123 | |
Leslie: The Toyota Camry | 126 | |
Leslie: Ridgeview High School | 129 | |
Eric: Jack's Basement Studio | 130 | |
Leslie: Applewood Park | 132 | |
Leslie: The Toyota Camry | 136 | |
Eric: Barb's Flowerbed | 140 | |
Leslie: The Golden Corral | 145 | |
Eric: The Football Field | 149 | |
Leslie: Inner-City New Orleans | 152 | |
Eric: The Tan Minivan | 157 | |
Part 3 | The Love Story | |
Leslie: Mexican Carry-Out | 165 | |
Eric: Perkins Family Restaurant | 171 | |
Leslie: 311 Rambling Rose Road | 174 | |
Leslie: 1422 South Newport Way | 178 | |
Eric: 1422 South Newport Way | 182 | |
Eric: Perkins Family Restaurant | 185 | |
Eric: The Ludy Kitchen | 187 | |
Leslie: Applewood Park | 190 | |
Leslie: The Ludy Kitchen | 194 | |
Leslie: Leslie's Bedroom | 201 | |
Eric: My Girl Leslie | 204 | |
Eric: The Secret | 205 | |
Leslie: The Phone Calls | 207 | |
Leslie: Painful Good-Byes | 210 | |
Eric: The Letters | 213 | |
Leslie: Preparation | 216 | |
Eric: Spring Break | 219 | |
Eric: Allegan, Michigan | 223 | |
Eric: The Plan | 227 | |
Leslie: The Moment | 230 | |
Eric: Six Months | 234 | |
Leslie: Woodfield Suites | 240 | |
Eric: The Day a Dream Came True | 250 | |
Leslie: The Day a Dream Came True | 254 | |
Eric: Mr. Vale | 258 | |
Eric: First Years of Happily Ever After | 261 |