Hey everyone, this was posted on our local newspaper’s site on Friday and it goes out in print this week:
Thamesford pastor creates trilogy of novels as a legacy for his sons
THAMESFORD – When illness struck father and pastor Shawn Robinson, he turned his recovery process into an environment of adventure and humour, instead of just hospital visits and medicine.
It started out as a pain in Robinson’s eye that turned out to be a bad case of shingles – so bad that the next day it caused him to suffer a seizure. He was admitted into urgent care and diagnosed with encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain caused by the shingles virus that attacked his spine.
“I wondered if I would live,” said Robinson. “It’s one of those situations where I wrestled with my own mortality.”
He began to think about his sons Liam, 14 and Ezra, 9. Because he was uncertain of the outcome of his illness, Robinson wanted to give them something. So, he began to write them a bedtime story similar – to the ones he would make up in his head for them when they were little. But this time on paper.
“I wasn’t sure if I would get to read it to them,” he said.
Two hundred pages later, main character Liam, an ordinary 13-year-old boy facing bullies, school and home life suddenly gets sucked into a toilet to another world called Arestana. Once in Arestana, he meets a boy named Ezra and a…
Read the rest here: http://www.ingersolltimes.com/2018/06/13/thamesford-pastor-creates-trilogy-of-novels-as-a-legacy-for-his-sons
Shawn
