On October 10, 2011 at Convocation, North America's largest weekly gathering of Christian students, bestselling Christian author Karen Kingsbury, challenged students to be passionate about their own life story. "The story that will matter the most is the one that you are writing with the days of your lives," Kingsbury said, using "writing" as an analogy for living a Christian life. "What you want at the end of your time is for people to say of you that you wrote a bestseller with the finite number of days God has given you."

Kingsbury has written more than 50 novels and has made the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists.