When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write

by Leslie Ludy and Eric Ludy

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590523539
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Multnomah
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

GOD Is Faithful

I thoroughly enjoyed reading WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE (ok, I absolutely devoured it) precisely because it is not a preachy book. More importantly, though, WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE made me want to emulate Eric Ludy. Eric and Leslie longed to be together. Until their wedding day, however, they were focused on being used by God in whatever way He wanted to use each of them. Eric was focused on missions and on a teaching job. Leslie was focused on being an encouragement to the women around her. While WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE is not a how-to book, it does show readers that it is possible for two sweethearts to be focused more on their respective relationships with Jesus Christ than on each other. To those readers who are asking how we can be focused more on Jesus than on the person in whom we are romantically interested, I recommend the prequel to WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE (which is titled When God Writes Your Love Story). Just in case you are wondering, the prequel to WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE isn't a how-to book, either. When you wait on God, dreams really do come true.

The MOST beautiful love story

I am a college student and I read a lot of books on biblical relationships and marriage because I feel it is important to be prepared. This past Sunday night I read the ENTIRE book. I had to wake up at 6 the next morning for work and did not put it down until I was done at 2AM. What an incredible testimony of God's grace and purification and renewal in the lives of His children! When we are surrendered to Him, He just does amazing things. I must warn you, however, that in WHATEVER capacity your future spouse proposes to you, it WILL NOT be more beautiful than what Eric Ludy did!!! I don't know how God will write my story so that I'm not jealous of Leslie. =)

wow

Wow! What a fun book to read.I loved its fun way of weaving their story together. This book I bought for myself and when my wife found out it read like a couple combining their love diaries and stories and remembrances she just took the book from me and she stayed up all hours reading the book. I did get my chance and I couldn't resist the "what happened next" feeling I kept getting. A hint at the dream...two virgins...both almost lost purity...regained sense...held out for better...and wow.My gut opinion: this book is in the top ten for my kids to read.I think girls in particular will ABSOLUTELY FALL IN LOVE with reading this book.This is not primarily a kid book to be given to teenagers to read. I think it is really a love story told to people like me. A father, husband, and romantic. I do think it is an excellent book for teens. I love it when a book is able to cross boundaries. It lets me connect with my kids in a fresh way.I went back later and bought another copy for a friend.---------------If you like this book check out their other book WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY, ISBN 1-929125-00-3, it uses the "let me tell my story" approach to a much lesser degree but it still includes a lot of personal detail about the ludy's lives. Thumbs up for both books.

Beautifully Told With A Strong Message

WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE is the autobiographical story of Eric and Leslie Ludy, authors of WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY. If you read WGWYLS then you got a taste of what the Ludy's tale was like. It's expanded upon greatly here and it turns out that their story is worth reading in its entirety.WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE follows the lives of Eric and Leslie from childhood through marriage, in first-person point of view but from both of their perspectives. What the Ludy's are trying to accomplish in relating their past is to keep alive the dream of a real, pure love story for those who might think it is all a myth. Eric and Leslie were raised in the church but both made some bad relationship choices in their teen years. Leslie relates that because of her mistakes she thought the dream of finding a Godly mate (her "knight") was no longer possible. But, of course, there's a happy ending. Because both of them got serious with the Lord and began to seek after Him wholly God began to move in their lives. Individually they had made the choice to give Him total control of everything, including their love life. And that's where things began to look up.WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE, then, is a powerful testimony to what can happen if you put God first in your life -- your whole life. The Ludy's are a powerful example of just how much more beautiful one's own personal love story can be when it's told by the Maker Himself, rather than in our own feeble ways. Their philosophy on this subject is better related in WHEN GOD WRITES YOUR LOVE STORY (I recommend picking it up), but there's something fascinating and lovely about reading through their whole experience and seeing the hand of God upon their lives. Not only was I touched by the read but inspired in my walk as well -- to strive harder for the things which they did in theirs.If you're desiring to let the Lord show you a better way in your relationships, or if you are in a place where you feel like it's no longer possible for something this good to happen for you then this is a book you need to read. Everyone will have a different story, but I believe that things ultimately can be just as amazing as they were for the Ludy's if we let the same Author take control of ours. For the Christian single, you can't do much better than the Ludy's books. FIVE STARS.

A sense of Hope in lonely times

Eric and Leslie have hit it on the nose once again. This is a great book. With lots of humor and great honesty. This is better than any of the sappy romance novels out there. I finished it at 1am because I could not put it down in the last few chapters. It also came at a time when I started to question if I was right in purity. I know I am right (as God has told me many times) but it is great to know that others have gone through this and come out with the sweetest gift of all. So everyone please read this book. I saw another person say that she now believes in "Happily Ever After"...well I do to. Maybe we should all form a club!:-)